title: MicroSD Card versus USB Flash Drive for Raspberry Pi 2
body: <p>Articles on this topic from 2012 for earlier RPi hardware extolling the virtues of using an external USB flash drive are now dated.</p>
  
  <p>In 2015, using Raspberry Pi 2 hardware, is there still any advantage to moving the root file system and booting from an external USB flash drive instead of just using the default microSD card?</p>