Raspberry PI on an external drive, how?

Question

linux

Hello!
I have a Raspberry pi, but I don't like the idea that the image can only be stored on an SD card.
And I had a question:
Is it possible to buy a small SD card, just to act as an OS bootloader?
That is, the entire operating system and swap files were on the SSD drive
. And how to connect the SSD drive in this way? Through USB?
There is also no particular desire to use flash memory, because the number of write cycles is also limited.
Will the system work stably like this?
And speed?
Maybe there is an alternative?
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Can. Like this.
Here is something in Russian.
Here in English, but very detailed.
I have a regular hard drive, via a USB adapter. SSD is the same.
will work even more stable, since the SD card has a small resource. There must be a stable and sufficient diet.

Answer 2

www.berryterminal.com/doku.php/berryboot