Using SSD with Jetson nano + Securing it

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Hi all,

We’re trying to secure a few devkit jetson nano we’ll be deploying. (We got a bunch of eMMC modules coming later).
Thing is, jetson nano devkit uses SD cards that can only be encrypted with zimkey. According to this topic, zimkey is not compatible with Balena.

So a solution might be to use SSDs. Came accross this SSD+raspberry topic and I was wondering if the same method would work on jetson nano.

It’s also worth mentionning that balena etcher method for flashing SD card does not work with our jetson devkits (see our topic here) so we have to use jetson-flash. Does the method above for booting from SSD on balena work with jetson-flash ?

Best,

Alexandre

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Up for this !

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Hi,
To follow up on this; unfortunately due to the complexity of how the Jetson boots and its required binaries, it is not possible to boot directly from an SSD as suggested by your linked forum post. I would recommend still using the internal eMMC to boot from and then mounting an SSD after boot to use as storage. Let us know if this helps.