The brand new Raspberry Pi 5 not solely has a a lot quicker ARM chip than its predecessor Raspberry Pi 4, but in addition a PCI Categorical port (PCIe x1). A normal PCIe SSD in M.2 format may be related to this, however solely through an adapter that isn’t but out there.
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The Raspberry Pi builders need to ship two completely different adapter variations from 2024, the Polish firm Pineberry Pi needs to launch its “Hat Drive!” in two variations within the subsequent few weeks.
Now the British firm Pimoroni can be presenting its “NVMe Base” for the Raspberry Pi 5.
The NVMe base is mounted below the Raspi 5 board, which signifies that the GPIO header connector, for instance, can nonetheless be used. Nevertheless, the sandwich building will in all probability not match into the official Raspi 5 housing.
The Pimoroni NVMe Base is monitored below the Raspi 5.
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M.2 SSDs in sizes 2280, 2260, 2242 and 2230 match into the Pimoroni adapter. The facility provide apparently comes from the Raspi 5. Pimoroni features a foil cable to attach the adapter to the PCIe x1 port of the Raspi 5 .
The Pimoroni NVMe Base (PIM699) will price 13.50 British kilos. Sadly, Pimoroni has not but revealed when the adapter board might be out there – it simply says “coming quickly”.
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