Adding an NVMe Drive to a Raspberry Pi 5 | Pimoroni NVMe Base | Qubits Tech
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- čas přidán 16. 02. 2024
- In this video, I take a look at the Pimoroni NVMe Base for the Raspberry Pi 5. This board allows an NVMe SSD to be used with the Pi 5, with the board attaching to the underside of the Pi, leaving the top of the board clear for other addons.
You can get this board from Pimoroni here: shop.pimoroni.com/products/nv...
Alternatively, many other sellers stock Pimoroni products.
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I installed mine a fortnight ago. Now I just hope they come out with a suitable case to cope with the extra height.
Thank you. I tested 4 different Pi 5 NVMe boards. I like Pimoroni's best because it can come bundled with compatible NVMe drive so makes it hussle free for the Pi 5 users. Pimoroni does 1 better by documenting what NVMe drive its board is compatible with.
Yeah, Pimoroni tend to be pretty decent with documentation/support, and it's nice they offer drives to go with it. They're also UK based, which for me is a plus.
Nice video. I copied the software using the Raspberry Pi OS, sd card copier and all my settings were transferred to the nvme drive, so I didn't need to set up the new drive.
That's another option, just need to make sure the OS is up to date before copying :)
THE usual tinkering was required to get my Raspberry Pi and the NVMe drive to work together. Basically I did something. I changed something. I repeated something and I restarted something and well in the end something I did got it working...something....the next time it'll more than likely be something else or something different. Just saying.....it's worth trying.......something!!!
Hi, I managed to install a Pimoroni on my Pi 5. I have installed windows 11 onto the SSD and used custom UEFI installed onto the SD card. When my Pi starts and loads the UEFI boot menu my NVME drive is not detected. Is there another way to enable NVME drive on that menu? Thanks
Which uefi you have used ?
Hi, sorry I have only just seen this comment. I'm not sure about using UEFI with the Pi, I'd be interested to hear about your setup as it's something I'd be willing to have a play with myself. I wasn't aware that UEFI was usable with the Pi.
I have exactly the same hat on three pi5's but one of them just will not see the ssd or rather pcie lane
where am I going wrong or where do I look for a good resource?
Hi, sorry for the delay getting back to you. If you still have the issue, I'd start by reseating the cable, and swapping it with one from another Pi. If that doesn't work, I'd switch the drive with one that works, to see if that's the issue. It appears not all drives are supported, so that could be the problem.
@@qubitstech Hi thanks for the responce appreciated I did som digging and seems the PI5 have a dead pcie port I swoped every thing and tested all combinations posabel and this one pi5 just will not show the pcie post to be active. I send the PI in for inspection by a PI Shop will see what they find.
can we use a cooler based nvme M.2 drive to it with Rasberry Pi 5 8 gb.
Probably not with this board, there's very little room between the bottom of the Pi and the drive. The short cable means you can't add larger standoffs either.
sadly my nvme wont show up... something must be broken
Maybe the drive isn't compatible, which drive are you using? A few drives are known to be incompatible with this base (and probably the Pi in general)
@@qubitstech If you are interestet the base works, the problem was that the controller on my partiot nvme did not talk with the raspberry 5.
@MatzWerk Thanks for following up. It looks like there's quite a few drives now on Pimoroni's list which have issues with this base, including the 2230 version of the Kioxia drive I'm using. Surprised there are so many issues, I wonder if the other NVMe boards available are the same.