The Raspberry Pi has come a good distance since its humble origins, including quicker processors and higher interfaces with every new era. Now, the Raspberry Pi 5 has a stunning new PCIe port proper on board, and [Jeff Geerling] has gone proper forward and slammed in an NVMe SSD as a boot drive.
[Jeff] explains that to make use of an NVMe as well, you first have to switch /boot/config.txt to allow PCIe and modify the Raspberry Pi’s boot order. As soon as the bootloader is appropriately configured, you may boot straight off an SSD with Raspberry Pi OS put in. To get the working system on to an NVMe drive, he recommends cloning an current boot quantity from a microSD set up.
One of many main causes you would possibly wish to do that is pace. NVMe drives are usually a big minimize above even one of the best microSD playing cards, each in pace and reliability. [Jeff] additionally notes that you could use an NVMe SSD by a PCIe swap on the Pi 5 when you so need, however you may’t presently boot with this configuration.
It’s a fantastic function to have on the Pi 5, and it follows on from the sooner implementation on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. Video after the break.
