{"title":"NVMe Base Duo for Raspberry Pi 5","handle":"nvme-base-duo-for-raspberry-pi-5","url":"/products/nvme-base-duo-for-raspberry-pi-5","description":"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.NVMe Base Duo is a PCIe Gen 2 extension board for Raspberry Pi 5. 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 to make 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 be supported long term by updates to Raspberry Pi OS - though it is very early days and things are improving rapidly there!\nNOTE: You cannot boot from NVMe drives installed on NVMe Base Duo. We hope 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 handover to the pair of fast SSDs!Base Kit\nNVMe Base Duo PCB with two M.2 slots (M-Key)\n'PCIe Flex' Flat Flex Cable\n4x Rubber feet\n4x M2 bolt and 2x 5mm standoffs for SSD mounting\n4x 12mm M2.5 standoffs for base mounting\n8x short M2.5 bolts for base mounting \n4x 20mm M2.5 bolts for 'pass-thru' mounting with a HAT\nThe shipping product may have minor differences to the photos, but will be the same in essentials.NVMe Base Duo + 500GB (2 x 250GB) SSD Bundle\nBase Kit\n2 x 250GB+ NVMe SSDs\nNVMe Base Duo + 1000GB (2 x 500GB) SSD Bundle\nBase Kit\n2 x 500GB+ NVMe SSDs\nWe 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.Due to the tides and vagaries of the SSD market, we will ship whichever drives offer the best value for decent specs. We can say that:\nThey will have 250/500GB or better capacity\nThey will be rated by the manufacturer at PCIe Gen 3 or better speed (although Duo only supports Gen 2 speeds)\nWe'll have personally tested this model of drive with NVMe Base Duo.\nThey'll be backed by the usual Pimoroni guarantees and customer service.\n\nNOTE: Bundled drives may be from the same manufacturing batch. If you're a storage-integrity aficionado, you may want to source your own drives to avoid the unlikely edge-case of an issue or bug affecting an entire batch of drives.Drive CompatibilityWe've tested NVMe Base Duo with the following drives successfully. We have usually tested one drive from one batch, so this is not comprehensive, or an 'Approved' list, but it's a good guide for drives to seek out.In general, as the drives are behind the switch and not being used at boot we’ve found a much wider range of drives to be working and useful compared to the standard NVMe Base.\nADATA SX8200PNP\nADATA LEGEND 700\nCrucial CT500P5PSSD8\nGigabyte GP-GSM2NE3256GNTD\nKingston SKC3000S512G\nKIOXIA EXCERIA SSD 500GB\nKIOXIA EXCERIA G2 SSD 2TB\nLexar SSD NM710 1TB\nNetac NV200-512-E4X\nORIGIN Inception TLC830 Pro 256GB\nPatriot P300 256GB\nPatriot P310 240GB\nPatriot P300 512GB\nPNY CS1030 1TB\nSabrent Rocket Nano 500GB\nSabrent SB-RKT4P-1TB\nSabrent Rocket 4.0 1TB\nSamsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB\nSamsung SSD 980 500GB\nSamsung SSD 980 PRO 1TB\nSK hynix GOLD P31\nTeamGroup TM8FP6256G\nToshiba KBG40ZNS1T02 1TB\nTranscend TS500GMTE110Q\nWD Blue SN550 500GB\nWD Black SN750 SE\nWD PC SN740 512GB\nWD Red SN700 500GB\nWD Black SN770 1TB\nWD Blue SN570 1TB\nWD Green SN350 480GB\n'Avoid' List. We've had problems or reports of problems.Ortial ON-750-128 256GBOtherwise most M.2 NVMe drive (not SATA!) you have lying around should work fine.Check out our benchmark results over at pibenchmarks.net!\nGetting StartedFor the most hassle-free experience, make sure your Raspberry Pi OS is up to date, and your RPi 5 firmware is updated to 2023-12-06 (Dec 6th) or newer. This supports all the features of the RPi PCIe spec and means you don't have to mess with config files to get started.Software update on the RPi OS should do this for you, but to force it you can:\nopen a Terminal (Ctrl-Alt-T)\nrun sudo raspi-config and choose 'Latest' under Advanced Options > Bootloader Version.\nRunning sudo rpi-eeprom-update in the Terminal will tell you which version of firmware is running.Notes\nAlways power off your RPi and disconnect the power supply before installing or uninstalling the NVMe Base.\nYou cannot, at this time, boot from the drives installed on the NVM Base Duo. The single NVMe Base does support booting from the NVMe.\n NVMe Base Duo offers offers two PCIe Gen 2 M.2 slots behind a PCIe Gen2 Packet Switcher on a general purpose PCIe x1 connection - while we know most people want to add fast storage in theory you can use other devices with it, we just can't help you make them work! :-D What Would Jeff (Geerling) Do?\n","vendor":"Little Bird","product_type":"physical","in_stock":false,"options":[{"name":"Style","values":["NVMe Base Duo","NVMe Base Duo + 500GB (2x250GB) SSD","NVMe Base Duo + 1000GB (2x500GB) SSD"]}],"variants":[{"id":1069,"title":"NVMe Base Duo","sku":"PR-PIM704","mpn":"PIM704","price":74.55,"compare_at_price":0.0,"on_sale":false,"in_stock":false,"available_quantity":0,"option1":"NVMe Base Duo"},{"id":1070,"title":"NVMe Base Duo + 500GB (2x250GB) SSD","sku":"PR-PIM706","mpn":"PIM706","price":211.93,"compare_at_price":0.0,"on_sale":false,"in_stock":false,"available_quantity":0,"option1":"NVMe Base Duo + 500GB (2x250GB) SSD"},{"id":1071,"title":"NVMe Base Duo + 1000GB (2x500GB) SSD","sku":"PR-PIM705","mpn":"PIM705","price":271.57,"compare_at_price":0.0,"on_sale":false,"in_stock":false,"available_quantity":0,"option1":"NVMe Base Duo + 1000GB (2x500GB) SSD"}]}