A Little Gentle Soldering Brings NVMe To The Raspberry Pi 500
So that you’re mad that the brand new Raspberry Pi 500 might have an NVMe drive, however doesn’t due to their resolution to maintain the value of the brand new system low? Effectively, with a handful of components and a few soldering you’ll be able to repair that omission and transfer off the SD card! A beautiful individual by the title of Samuel Hedrick has pulled it off and is at the moment engaged on publishing a full record of the components you’ll need in addition to the right way to add them.
The easy half appears to be including an M.2 port to the area the place it might have come put in on the Raspberry Pi 500, however that’s solely step one. There isn’t any energy being despatched to the M.2 port, which is smart as you don’t desire a random solder level outputting 3.3V; this might positively trigger unhealthy issues to occur. Nonetheless, there are 4 PCIe coupling capacitors on the highest of the board you’ll be able to add and in the event you feed them 3.3V from an influence provide you’ll have a working M.2 port so as to add an NVMe drive to. The trick is to make use of the included circuits on the Raspberry Pi 500 to energy the M.2 internally, and people are the directions we’re awaiting.
The BOM wanted to allow M.2, and PoE+ as nicely, is kind of cheap which is resulting in questions on simply how a lot the price would have elevated if it had come already put in. Keep an eye for updates if you want to vastly increase the speed your Raspberry Pi 5 can run at.
