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X1001 pcie3 Kioxia
Sequential write speed 697191 KB/sec (target 10000) - PASS
Random write speed 94160 IOPS (target 500) - PASS
Random read speed 59578 IOPS (target 1500) - PASS

X1001 Patriot P310 pcie3
Sequential write speed 728177 KB/sec (target 10000) - PASS
Random write speed 141241 IOPS (target 500) - PASS
Random read speed 56888 IOPS (target 1500) - PASS

X1001 kingspec 2242 pcie3
Sequential write speed 720175 KB/sec (target 10000) - PASS
Random write speed 127007 IOPS (target 500) - PASS
Random read speed 52345 IOPS (target 1500) - PASS

[ajsaunders]

Hi, I have just setup my pi 5 in the new Argon ONE V3 M.2 NVME PCIE Case with a Samsung NVME drive which works well. Faster and 10 degrees cooler than the raspberry pi heatsink cooler.

[antoinelemaylapointe]

Thank you! Exactly What I was looking for

[suntoryjim]

Of the 4 NVMEs I have, only the no-name 500GB NVME from a Beelink miniPC worked with the Geekworm X1001 nvme hat.
The Patriot P310 is great for low-power applications. I have one installed in my PineBook Pro and it has extended the battery life noticeably over the WD Green that I had previously.

[wcg]

I just went with a 240GB Crucial P310 due to the cheap price and known compatibility. I'm using the same Geekworm X1001 hat. I have a few other NVMEs, I might try but I'm happy with the setup now. However, I will say, I had a lot of issues with certain SD cards and USB external drives. The Pi5 seems very picky!

[rogthedodge]

Hi Lee you can add:

Lexar NM620 512GB SSD, M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3x4 NVMe 1.4 Internal SSD which is a bit cheaper (and less capacity than the other Lexar's shown) I cloned your KDE distribution from my USB drive no problem

[Wildersport]

Crucial P3 Plus 4TB CT4000P3PSSD8 and Pimoroni NVME base working perfectly. 3D printed case, official cooler.

[BradClarke]

Interesting how different boards support different SSDs.
I bought the Pimoroni board because it supports the WD Black SN750 SE that I already own, with a Phison controller.

[SB-qmwg]

Wow. geekworm has a wiki. I'll have to check that out

[kengr]

Silicon Power PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD 256GB on Pimoroni base worked first time perfectly

[pabloalonso]

Kingston kc3000 2280, have anyone tested? I am interested in this model...

[JNET_Reloaded]

i have a wd black sn770 is this 1 tb ssd nvme compatible with my rpi 5 pi bottom ?

[Druac]

I can report that the TEAMGROUP MP44Q 1TB SLC Cache Gen 4x4 M.2 works.

[MindFarter]

Viathan 256GB 2280 tested with Pimoroni NMVe base, working on pi 5 8GB

[alexmcd]

Wish I had seen this before, but I got lucky and mine works fine

[martinsandler]

I was able to boot to a Patriot 300 256GB M.2 2280 drive (on Pimoroni compatible list) in Raspi 5 with an external enclosure with the eeprom set to the latest and correct boot order, but upon installing the same drive to the NVME base,  the NVME drive is not recognized upon checking lsblk and checking for the drive with the RASPI imager.  I reconnected the ribbon cable more than once.

What may be wrong?  The ribbon cable?  I believe others on the forum may be having issues with the Patriot 300 drive but It works with an external enclosure.


I very much would appreciate your feedback. I mentioned the same to Pimoroni but I haven't heard from them as of yet.

[XGP]

I'm using a Kingston KC3000 1tb drive with a Pineberry Pi bottom board. It works well, but the drive runs very hot. I ordered a heatsink for it.

[MrTachi]

Kingston NV2 has worked really well for me on the Pimoroni NVME Base.

[rebeuhsin]

Thanks for this. A few days late for me. I was stupid enough to proceed with trying to use two unproven ssd as a boot drive! Hours wasted, because I did not have a micro SD card to boot from. Your way is so much smarter. I have that very pcie to nvme board from geekworm. I had two nvme ssd not work (so slow, and they failed with the system reporting access errors after booting as if they were write protected or disconnected? Neither has the unsupported controller (had seen that on the web page). Tried setting the pi to gen 2 or gen 3, and many other things. Maybe they would have worked if I had used the extra 5V input on the nvme board? I suspect they need more current than the pcie connector allows. Greekworm supplies an extra 5V input, but I did not have a connector, or want to have another power supply. I ended up using the ssd from my pi V4, for the pi V5 and a new SSD with the Pi 4. The Argon USB to M.2 board is not picky at all, but obviously slower. BTW I also have had so many problems with booting from usb 3.2 flash drives. Is there a list of those tested by someone? No access errors just seems like the faster the usb flash drive, the slower the pi works. Both the failed USB flash drives and failed SSD had other things in common, they hung on shutdowns and restarts. Learned there is a restart service and a shutdown service in systemd looking at text that normally is not on the screen long enough to read.

[kiril.g]

Hello,
Could you confirm that Crucial P3 1TB NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD is compatible or not?
Thank you in advance.

[edmondw]

I was able to use Fanxiana s880 2TB, up to 2500MB/s (Pi 5 limit) for boot up of Raspberry Pi OS. The vendor claims this drive can go up to 7300MB/s, so it is an overkill.