Pimoroni has launched a brand new possibility for connecting an M.2 SSD to the Raspberry Pi 5 (curr. $145.95 on Amazon), constructing on the Pi HatDrive that Pineberry introduced final month. In abstract, Pineberry created two fashions, which promote because the Pi HatDrive High and Pi HatDrive Backside for M.2 2230/2242 and M.2 2280 drives, respectively. Please see our launch article for extra data.
Supposedly, the Pimoroni NVMe Base can run M.2 SSDs at PCIe 3.0, which equates to 800 MB/s. By default, the Raspberry Pi 5 gives PCIe 2.0 help for roughly half the speeds of PCIe 3.0. Tom’s {Hardware} notes that it ought to be doable to allow PCIe 3.0 although by altering the Raspberry Pi 5’s /boot/config.txt file. Whereas the web site has not offered any particulars about this, Jeff Geerling has mentioned enabling PCIe 3.0 on his weblog.
At any fee, Pimoroni’s NVMe Base solely connects to the underside of the Raspberry Pi 5. Nevertheless, it accepts M.2 2230, M.2 2242 and M.2 2280 SSDs, making it extra versatile than both of Pineberry’s equivalents. Additionally, the Pimoroni NVMe Base is a good bit cheaper. Particularly, the Pimoroni NVMe Base will retail for £13.50 (€15.73) in comparison with €20 (£17.16) and €25.99 (£21.45) for the Pi HatDrive High and Pi HatDrive Backside, respectively. Presently, Pimoroni lists the NVMe Base as ‘coming quickly’ on its web site with no indication of availability.
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