52Pi N16 Quad NVMe Expansion Board for Raspberry Pi 5
Add four M.2 NVMe SSDs to your Raspberry Pi 5 and run the whole stack from a single USB-C PD supply. Ideal for a compact home NAS.
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Turn a Raspberry Pi 5 into a compact four-drive storage server. This expansion board connects to the Pi 5's PCIe port and splits it into four M.2 NVMe SSD slots, giving you terabytes of fast, solid-state storage without a tangle of USB enclosures.
Powering one NVMe drive from a Pi 5 is easy; powering four is not. The N16 solves this with its own USB-C Power Delivery input that accepts 9 V to 20 V and converts it to a stable 5.1 V / 5 A output. The supplied USB-C cable then carries that power to the Raspberry Pi 5, so one power supply runs the Pi and all four drives together.
All four slots take M-Key NVMe SSDs in 2230, 2242, 2260 and 2280 lengths, so you can mix whatever drives you have. The four drives share the Pi 5's single PCIe lane, so this board is best for large capacity and network storage rather than top speed from each drive. It's well suited to Samba or NFS file shares, home NAS builds, and software RAID 0 or RAID 5 arrays using mdadm.
Setup is simple: connect the PCIe ribbon cable, enable PCIe in /boot/firmware/config.txt, then partition and mount your drives. 52Pi's wiki walks through each step, including the RAID setup.
Features
- Expands storage to four M.2 NVMe SSDs on a single Raspberry Pi 5, enough capacity for a self-contained NAS
- Runs the Pi and all four drives from one supply, thanks to the onboard 9–20 V USB-C PD input with a regulated 5.1 V / 5 A output to the Pi
- Automatically reads your power supply's PD profiles. A 65 W PD supply is recommended for a full set of drives
- Fits nearly any M.2 NVMe drive, with mounting positions for 2230, 2242, 2260 and 2280 SSDs
- Shows each drive's activity at a glance with four per-slot activity LEDs
- Ready for Samba file servers and software RAID (0 and 5), with step-by-step guides on the 52Pi wiki
Specifications
| Property | Specification |
|---|---|
| Model | N16 (52Pi EP-0180) |
| Compatibility | Raspberry Pi 5 |
| Host interface | PCIe, via the Raspberry Pi 5 PCIe FFC connector |
| SSD slots | 4x M.2 M-Key NVMe |
| Supported SSD sizes | 2230, 2242, 2260, 2280 |
| Power input | USB-C Power Delivery, 9 V to 20 V (65 W PD supply recommended) |
| Power output to Pi | 5.1 V / 5 A via USB-C |
| Indicators | 4x SSD activity LEDs |
| Dimensions | 87 x 114 mm |
Resources
- 52Pi Wiki – EP-0180 (setup, partitioning, RAID 0 and RAID 5 guides)
- 52Pi Official Video – Quad NVMe Expansion Board for Raspberry Pi 5
- Raspberry Pi Documentation – PCIe Configuration
What's Included
- 1x N16 Quad NVMe expansion board
- 2x PCIe FFC cables
- 1x USB-C power cable
- 1x screwdriver
- 1x screw pack
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