NVMe Base for Raspberry Pi 5

Name: NVMe Base for Raspberry Pi 5
Brand: Pimoroni
SKU: 769894024881
Price: 14.01 EUR
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)

Description

This NVMe HAT designed by Pimoroni allows you to add super fast storage to your Raspberry Pi 5.

The NVMe Base is a PCIe expansion card for the Raspberry Pi 5. Add an M-key NVMe SSD (with support from 2230 to 2280) and mount it under your Raspberry Pi for a compact and fast storage solution. It is the ideal solution for turning your Raspberry Pi 5 into a file server, media center, reverse proxy, etc.; for really any task that benefits from large amounts of fast storage, especially with arbitrarily high operations per second (IOPS) workloads.

Because the NVMe Base is mounted under your Pi and rests on the rubber feet provided, you don't need an enclosure. No enclosure is available for this yet either.

NVMe base follows the new "PIP" design guidelines of Raspberry Pi, so it will be easy to use and will be supported by long-term updates to Raspberry Pi OS.

Raspberry Pi Firmware

For the most trouble-free experience, make sure your Raspberry Pi OS is up-to-date and that your RPi 5 firmware has been updated to the latest version. This supports all features of the RPi PCIe specification and means you don't have to fiddle with configuration files to get started.

NVMe board
PCIe flat cable
4 rubber feet
set of sockets, screws and nuts

NVMe SSD not included!

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Getting started

Firmware

Make sure your Raspberry Pi OS and RPi 5 firmware are up to date and newer than December 2023. Software update on the RPi OS should do this for you, but you can force it by starting a Terminal and running sudo raspi-config and choosing 'latest' under firmware options, then running sudo rpi-eeprom-update in the Terminal. This will also tell you which firmware is running.

PCIe 3 Mode

To enable experimental and not-officially-supported PCIe 3 mode, add the follow line to the [all] section at the end of your Raspberry Pi /boot/config.txt file like this:

dtparam=pciex1_gen=3

Save and reboot - your drive is ready to use!

Formatting the NVMe and booting from NVMe

If you want to boot from the NVMe drive, follow these extra steps:

Make sure your firmware is updated as above
Format the drive using Raspberry Pi Imager
You can do this with your NVMe Base installed by booting the RPi 5 from SD card and running Raspberry Pi Imager from the start menu
Open a Terminal
Run sudo raspi-config
Choose NVMe boot from the 'Advanced' section
Reboot your RPi 5