Raspberry Pi presents its own SSD

Memory Raspberry Pi presents its own SSD

2024-10-28 From Margit Kuther | Translated by AI 2 min Reading Time

To help developers get the most out of the Raspberry Pi 5, Raspberry Pi Trading has introduced a range of NVMe SSDs under the Raspberry Pi brand. These are available both individually and bundled with the M.2 HAT+ as ready-to-use SSD kits.

Raspberry Pi SSD: piggyback on a Raspberry Pi 5 with M.2 HAT+(Image: Raspberry Pi Foundation) — Raspberry Pi SSD: piggyback on a Raspberry Pi 5 with M.2 HAT+
(Image: Raspberry Pi Foundation)

When Raspberry Pi Trading—the independent arm of the non-profit Raspberry Pi Foundation responsible for selling Raspberry products—launched the Raspberry Pi 5 almost a year ago, it was thought that users would be most excited about the threefold increase in performance over the 2019 Raspberry Pi 4. "But very quickly it became clear that it was the other new features—the power switch and the PCI Express port - that captured people's imagination," says Eben Upton, Chief Executive Raspberry Pi Trading.

"However, the most popular use case for the PCI Express port of the Raspberry Pi 5 is the connection of an NVMe solid-state disk (SSD). SSDs are fast; faster even than A2-class SD cards. Those looking for uncompromising performance should run the Raspberry Pi operating system on an SSD, and Raspberry Pi SSDs are the perfect choice," continues Upton.

Although the PCIe lane of the Raspberry Pi is officially only approved for PCIe 2.0 speed, according to Raspberry Pi it is also unofficially PCIe Gen 3 compliant and therefore suitable for transfer rates up to a maximum of one gigabyte per second. The 256 GB entry-level drive costs 30 US dollars individually or 40 US dollars as a kit; its big brother with 512 GB costs 45 US dollars individually or 55 US dollars as a kit. Both storage capacities offer a read and write performance of at least 4 KB with 40,000 IOPS and 70,000 IOPS respectively. The 256 GB SSD and the SSD kit are available now, while the 512 GB variants can be pre-ordered and will be delivered by the end of November.

Important: The Raspberry Pi SSD requires a separately available Raspberry Pi 5-compatible M.2 adapter, such as the Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+.

The specifications in detail

Specifications of the 256 GB NVMe
40k IOPS (4 kB random reads)
70k IOPS (4 kB random writes)
512GB NVMe
50k IOPS (4 kB random read accesses)
90k IOPS (4 kB random write accesses)
M.2 2230 form factor
Complies with the PCIe Gen 3 standard
NVMe 1.4 register interface and instruction set

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