Pimoroni NVMe Base Duo for Raspberry Pi 5 - PIM704

SKU: ADA5969 Brand: Adafruit

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Add two super-fast NVMe SSDs to your Raspberry Pi 5! Ideal if you need redundancy or just a load more storage on your RPi. Pimoroni's NVMe Base Duo is a PCIe Gen 2 extension board for Raspberry Pi 5. To use it, simply populate it with one or two M-key NVMe SSDs (2230 to 2280 sizes supported) and mount it under (or over) your Pi for a compact and fast storage solution. It even comes with rubber feet!

It's the perfect solution for turning your Raspberry Pi 5 into a file server, media centre, reverse proxy, home automation server with built-in backup, etc. - really any task that benefits from large amounts of fast storage, redundancy, or just making use of a couple of spare disks - especially with random high operations per second (IOPS) workloads. In short, it's a game changer!

NVMe Base Duo follows the new "PIP" design guidelines provided by Raspberry Pi, ensuring that it will be easy to use and supported long-term by updates to Raspberry Pi OS—though it is very early days, and things are improving rapidly there!

NOTE: You cannot boot from NVMe drives installed on NVMe Base Duo. Pimoroni hopes the RPi 5 firmware will support this in the future, but for now, it can only boot from drives that are the root device on the PCIe Bus—i.e., not behind a packet switcher/multiplexer. You'll need to boot from SD, and then the system can hand over to the pair of fast SSDs!

Comes with:

NVMe Base Duo PCB with two M.2 slots (M-Key)
'PCIe Flex' Flat Flex Cable
4x Rubber feet
4x M2 bolt and 2x 5mm standoffs for SSD mounting
4x 12mm M2.5 standoffs for base mounting
8x short M2.5 bolts for base mounting
4x 20mm M2.5 bolts for 'pass-thru' mounting with a HAT

The folks at Pimoroni recommend running the Raspberry Pi 5 at PCIe Gen 2 x 1 speeds with this Base. The total throughput is around 450MB/sec, or 220MB/sec+ per disk for simultaneous access, as they share the bandwidth through the PCIe switch.

Raspberry Pi 5 is not included. Does not work with Pi 4 or earlier.

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