Jetson Orin Nano Tutorial: SSD Install, Boot, and JetPack Setup - Full Guide!

The Orin Nano Development Kit supports PCIe Gen 3 drives. Here's a couple that have been tested:

The 1TB variations are also reasonably priced.

Jumper for force recovery:

00:00 Install SSD
01:17 Software Installation Overview
02:30 Get helper scripts from Github
03:38 Put Jetson Orin into Force Recovery Mode
05:36 Flash Jetson
08:14 Install JetPack on Jetson Orin Nano

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Amazing tutorial. Anyone in this dev environment will be going here instead of any other instructions written by Nvidia.

The time you save watching these videos is so valuable.!

[mikaelstewart]

Nice tutorial. It worked a charm after the NVIDIA SDK Manager failed on me. I now have a happy NVMe-booting Orin Nano.

[kjkszpjab]

Always the best tutorials, thank you!

[leguirerj]

I've been waiting for this tutorial.

[furkancetin]

What I couldn't do on Nvidia SDK manager, I was able to do with this video. Thanks a lot 😊

[sokhibtukhtaev]

At 4:08, you connect a usb-c cable into the jetson, the other looks like a plain old USB port, right? Does it mean I have to buy a cable whose one side is C-type and the other USB? Because my PC doesn't have a C-type port. Thank you.

[energyideas]

Is this still the recommended way to boot off of the <2 drive for a Supper? Thanks.

[xacompany]

Thanks for the great tutorial, I would love to do that with the last version of Jetpack for my Jetson XAVIER NX

[josevitormonteiro]

For the regular Orin Nano (no SD port) how to proceed? Had no success trying it via sdkmanager...

[innuendo]

Ordered the cheaper Jetson Orin Nano Super 10 days ago, I have a 2TB NVME that I'd like to put in it, and looking at videos like this one right now while waiting for it to get shipped.

Should this tutorial work for the Jetson Orin Nano Super too?

And are there any details that should be a bit different that I'll need to be aware of when trying to apply this tutorial.

[bheemkill]

Hello jim...can you please tell how to install pytorch and torchvision libraries in orin nano

[DeathTempler]

After "tar: Read Checkpoint 180000" I just get Flash failure and Cleaning up...

Not sure how to diagnose this

[LeoNux-umtg]

can you connect tha ram to any ddr4 laptop??

[abdulwasey]

Your videos are very helpful 👍
I am working on orin nx these days and its amazing.

[vivekdhiman]

Hello

I bought one NVIDIA jeson nano 8GB.

Using balenaetcher.. I flashed a memory card and I plugged memory card into the jetson nano. But nothing happens. Do I need to install SSD ?

[DennisWingo-gm]

Nice, thanks for this. Completely agree on this vs NVIDIA instructions!

[waynewarner]

Hello, does anyone have a clear and good step-by-step process to encrypt the Jetson Orin SDK?

[andyyu]

Thanks for the tutorial, really easy to follow! Ive been trying to use WSL and usbipd but it keeps dropping the bus the orin is attached to, seems like I need linux

[kidargueta]

Thanks for the video. I was just wondering, why not just use the SDK Manager? Is there any good reason to use the command line instead? Thanks!

[TheRecep]

Hello, I am getting an error while flashing the Jetson Orin Nano. At the end, it gives a warning of waiting for boot and fails with a timeout error. The device does not boot.