Another edition to your collection! Very nice. You should do a quick update on all the pieces in your museum. 😅 (make a short video, call it my pi museum) Have every pi out on a desk, or bench.
They missed a trick here. With the size of their board they could have included an adapter board that moves the USB-C and HDMI ports to beside the Ethernet port and make the HDMI full sized. Then put their USB-C power in port on the side underneath this new USB-C. This would look a lot cleaner and not even take up any more desk space.
This suggestion is excellent. I will convey the information to our technical development team and have them try to improve it to the way you expect. Thanks
You can also get synthetic (nylon maybe?) stand-offs that are less likely to scratch thing if you use them as feet. I boult a package of them for that purpose.
All very interesting but the investment in this setup must be close to £200 now even without the nVME drives! Please let us know what you have spent. Thanks 😁
I thought about cutting the head off a long screw and then twisting the long threaded part halfway into a standoff with glue. The passive case I have requires four long screws comming in from the bottom of the case.
@@leepspvideo yes, it may caused by the Ice tower cooler, the original setup is coming with Armor lite V5 heat sinks, so that the screws and copper pillar may be different, and we are going to check if the copper pillar's fault, it is a little bit longer maybe, and the mounting stander may need add to the kit for SSD 2242 fixing.
Great video Lee. Q: I noticed that "raspi-config" version: 20240708 has the option to enable PCIe Gen 3 speeds under "Advanced Options" but I haven't seen anyone online mention this "new" option. Any thoughts?
Would love to see how fast nvme raid 0 on the pi is if you get multiple identical drives. I know that anyone using this as a little server would likely want more redundancy but it’s always cool to see a tiny pi go faster.
I have a question, I have seen many NVME adapters and I understood that if the card has 1 slot for the NVME disk is managed with a PCI-E Gen 3 band, the cards with 2 slots for NVME disks, each disk is managed with a PCI-E Gen 2 band. On this Adapter if 1 slot or 2 slots or 4 slots are used at what speed do they go ?
@@pjr7x conky rings. I mentioned it in this Pi news Pi news 35. Windows 96, SD card storage, Pikiss Retroarch installer & Conky rings. Raspberry Pi. th-cam.com/video/dkrXJopVXmI/w-d-xo.html
The only thing stopping me from using this is there isnt a case that can hold it properly. I'm not putting ~480$ worth of nvmes inside a wide open/exposed pcb for every day use so it can be taken out by inevitable esd. The other quad m.2 adapter made by Geekworm is utter garbage even with a 5v 8A power supply. Try using ZFS to do a Stripe or mirror.
One of the draw backs to this board is ordering a case. 52PI doesn't make one that will fit and neither does anyone else that I have been able to find so far. I have a 7inch screen that I would love to mount it all to for a project. If anyone knows of anything that might accommodate please let me know.
yes,but you need to put the batocera to slot1 and setting the boot order to NVMe booting, and then, build a RAID5 for other 3 SSDs and mount it to the rom location, after that, you will get a big mass storage for your gaming system, yeah!
@@52Pi_Maker_Educationbut what is it capable of? I'm guessing there must be a pcie switch chip on the board, does this chip support gen 3 speeds, or only gen 2 like on the geekworm X1011?
@@markmagness4780 Yes, the PCIe chip on the board supports both Gen 2.0 and Gen 3.0, but the Raspberry Pi official certification only covers Gen 2.0 speeds. Nevertheless, it is possible to force the use of Gen 3.0, as demonstrated in the video. Although Gen 3.0 is forced, the speed is as shown in the video. This board allows your Raspberry Pi to have more disk space and you can set up your own RAID 0, RAID 1, or RAID 5 using software RAID. However, some people might argue that software RAID is not as stable as hardware RAID cards. This might be considered pushing the Raspberry Pi's PCIe performance to the limit, I'm not sure.
Hmmm? Bad luck I guess. I bought one and it could recognize all of my drives. It only picked up one and wouldn’t let me install anything to it or access it. Returning for a replacement, hoping it was just defective. I really want this to work
I doubt such a board will be made, hardware RAID tends to be reserved for servers in the commercial space. There is nothing wrong with software RAID under Linux, I have used it for years.
The question is. Is there a “tested drives list” for the quad board in this video. I can’t find one or much of anything on this board. Trouble shooting via TH-cam thread doesn’t seem to work when replies go missing and/or lost. Yes the Teamgroup NVMe drive works as a bootable drive on my geekworm x1002. I have another auto mounted in the usb slot. When I remove the geekworm and install this quad board the bootable NVMe does not boot it does not boot. So … When I boot from the SSD slot with the quad installed after configuring the config.txt file then running lsblk there are no drives listed after the SSD. Doesn’t matter how many nvme’s or in what order I try, nothing. Btw the raspiOS I’m running on both NVMe and SSD is your kde plasma
You don't need to boot from the Micro SD card anyway. You can boot from a RAID partition provided you load the appropriate RAID module from an initial RAM disk first. Alternatively, if you have, say, 4 NVME drives of 1 TB each, you could take, say, a 1 GB partition of the beginning of each of them, use one for booting as a non-RAID partition and use the other three for swap space - that will leave you with 4 equal sized partitions that you could use for software RAID 0, 1, 5, 6 or 10.
Another edition to your collection! Very nice.
You should do a quick update on all the pieces in your museum. 😅 (make a short video, call it my pi museum)
Have every pi out on a desk, or bench.
Fantastic. I am not going even try to calculate how much more storage one of those with 4 x 1TB drive would have over the first mainframe I worked on.
They missed a trick here. With the size of their board they could have included an adapter board that moves the USB-C and HDMI ports to beside the Ethernet port and make the HDMI full sized. Then put their USB-C power in port on the side underneath this new USB-C. This would look a lot cleaner and not even take up any more desk space.
This suggestion is excellent. I will convey the information to our technical development team and have them try to improve it to the way you expect. Thanks
You can also get synthetic (nylon maybe?) stand-offs that are less likely to scratch thing if you use them as feet. I boult a package of them for that purpose.
I'm curious if this setup can be in a rack. I'm in the process of getting several Pi 5s in a rack, and this would be brilliant.
Looks good. BTW. I just built my first pi5 using the sunfounder mini case.
Another good video Lee,is it possible to pick which Nvme to boot from or do you always have to manually move the drives around.
I like this board. I will buy one. Thanks.
Thanks, and you can try to build RAID5 or RAID0, even RAID1 on it.
All very interesting but the investment in this setup must be close to £200 now even without the nVME drives! Please let us know what you have spent. Thanks 😁
I'm a fan of a Pi NAS but M.2 is going to restrict the size somewhat.
I thought about cutting the head off a long screw and then twisting the long threaded part halfway into a standoff with glue. The passive case I have requires four long screws comming in from the bottom of the case.
Thank you for your video; it's exceptionally well-made! Why not directly use the Raspberry Pi on the board to connect to the SSDs below?
@@52Pi_Maker_Education I don’t understand. Is it not setup the same in the instructions?
@@leepspvideo yes, it may caused by the Ice tower cooler, the original setup is coming with Armor lite V5 heat sinks, so that the screws and copper pillar may be different, and we are going to check if the copper pillar's fault, it is a little bit longer maybe, and the mounting stander may need add to the kit for SSD 2242 fixing.
Hi leepsvideo, as my test, it can support 9v-20v PD power supply and it works for me.
Looks really cool
Great video Lee. Q: I noticed that "raspi-config" version: 20240708 has the option to enable PCIe Gen 3 speeds under "Advanced Options" but I haven't seen anyone online mention this "new" option. Any thoughts?
@@rg8555 sounds like a good addition 👍🏻
Would love to see how fast nvme raid 0 on the pi is if you get multiple identical drives. I know that anyone using this as a little server would likely want more redundancy but it’s always cool to see a tiny pi go faster.
I have a question, I have seen many NVME adapters and I understood that if the card has 1 slot for the NVME disk is managed with a PCI-E Gen 3 band, the cards with 2 slots for NVME disks, each disk is managed with a PCI-E Gen 2 band.
On this Adapter if 1 slot or 2 slots or 4 slots are used at what speed do they go ?
Hi Lee, what is the name please of the monitoring app in the bottom right hand corner? It looks so cool!
@@pjr7x conky rings. I mentioned it in this Pi news
Pi news 35. Windows 96, SD card storage, Pikiss Retroarch installer & Conky rings. Raspberry Pi.
th-cam.com/video/dkrXJopVXmI/w-d-xo.html
@@leepspvideo cheers, got it and looks fab!
That is a neat desktop background. What is it and where is it from? Would quite like that image :)
@@JB-NZ Creating free AI images with Microsoft Copilot
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It’s available in my latest os. Video later today
The only thing stopping me from using this is there isnt a case that can hold it properly. I'm not putting ~480$ worth of nvmes inside a wide open/exposed pcb for every day use so it can be taken out by inevitable esd. The other quad m.2 adapter made by Geekworm is utter garbage even with a 5v 8A power supply. Try using ZFS to do a Stripe or mirror.
A NAS powered by Raspberry Pi 5 and NVMe? I'll take it.
Mass storage, RAID disk array, that's easy to build with this expansion board. 😆
yes, it will power both Raspberry Pi and NVMe SSDs, according to your SSDs feature, you may need 9v-20v PD power supply.
But it will be quite a small capacity NAS using just M.2
@@An.Individual it depends on the SSD capacity right?
could you put 4 neural cards on there?
Have you seen a neat solution for NVMe and PoE in a case ?
@@johnpeters4214 FULLY LOADED Raspberry Pi 5 Cases. Edatec adds NVMe, PoE and Analogue Audio
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Very nice!
One of the draw backs to this board is ordering a case. 52PI doesn't make one that will fit and neither does anyone else that I have been able to find so far. I have a 7inch screen that I would love to mount it all to for a project. If anyone knows of anything that might accommodate please let me know.
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Thanks! BUT, where's the link for the 9v-20v power supply?
@@cjlowe1650 this is more powerful than my MacBook Air charger
amzn.to/4dDNAaa
20V 3.25A mine is only 20V 1.5A
@@leepspvideo It's UK (I'm USA) but thanks.
Can you run batocera on one m.2 and use multiple m.2 drives for rom storage or digital setups?
yes,but you need to put the batocera to slot1 and setting the boot order to NVMe booting, and then, build a RAID5 for other 3 SSDs and mount it to the rom location, after that, you will get a big mass storage for your gaming system, yeah!
Ok what is the speed transfer
it may depends on SSD speed and file system type ?
@@52Pi_Maker_Educationbut what is it capable of? I'm guessing there must be a pcie switch chip on the board, does this chip support gen 3 speeds, or only gen 2 like on the geekworm X1011?
@@markmagness4780 Yes, the PCIe chip on the board supports both Gen 2.0 and Gen 3.0, but the Raspberry Pi official certification only covers Gen 2.0 speeds. Nevertheless, it is possible to force the use of Gen 3.0, as demonstrated in the video. Although Gen 3.0 is forced, the speed is as shown in the video. This board allows your Raspberry Pi to have more disk space and you can set up your own RAID 0, RAID 1, or RAID 5 using software RAID. However, some people might argue that software RAID is not as stable as hardware RAID cards. This might be considered pushing the Raspberry Pi's PCIe performance to the limit, I'm not sure.
Hmmm? Bad luck I guess. I bought one and it could recognize all of my drives. It only picked up one and wouldn’t let me install anything to it or access it. Returning for a replacement, hoping it was just defective. I really want this to work
No love, this product really needs an approved SSD list
I tried team group MP33 SSD’s anyone have success?
@leepspvideo is there a way to convert a batocera MBR partitioned drive for pi5 to GPT, in order to use a 4tb nvme?
@@erk5243 it’s not something I have tried
Looing for a 2+ MVMe board that has RAID built into the board, pre boot so the Pi thinks there is only 1 drive.
I doubt such a board will be made, hardware RAID tends to be reserved for servers in the commercial space. There is nothing wrong with software RAID under Linux, I have used it for years.
Need tested compatible NVMe list. It couldn’t see my TeamGroup 2tb mp33
which NVMe drives work with a Raspberry Pi 5?
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@@leepspvideo No, which drives work in the Quad Board by 52pi. I tried Teamgroup and it couldn’t see it with lsblk
@@JeffBromley does it work as a removable drive if you are running raspberry Pi OS on the main drive?
The question is. Is there a “tested drives list” for the quad board in this video. I can’t find one or much of anything on this board. Trouble shooting via TH-cam thread doesn’t seem to work when replies go missing and/or lost.
Yes the Teamgroup NVMe drive works as a bootable drive on my geekworm x1002. I have another auto mounted in the usb slot.
When I remove the geekworm and install this quad board the bootable NVMe does not boot it does not boot. So …
When I boot from the SSD slot with the quad installed after configuring the config.txt file then running lsblk there are no drives listed after the SSD. Doesn’t matter how many nvme’s or in what order I try, nothing.
Btw the raspiOS I’m running on both NVMe and SSD is your kde plasma
does the 4 nvmes board support pcie 3 "overclock" instead of just pcie 2?
@@Keeeeeeeeeeev yes
@@leepspvideo what asmedia chip does it use?
can it build a NAS if booted fron SC card
With 2 raid 1's
You don't need to boot from the Micro SD card anyway. You can boot from a RAID partition provided you load the appropriate RAID module from an initial RAM disk first.
Alternatively, if you have, say, 4 NVME drives of 1 TB each, you could take, say, a 1 GB partition of the beginning of each of them, use one for booting as a non-RAID partition and use the other three for swap space - that will leave you with 4 equal sized partitions that you could use for software RAID 0, 1, 5, 6 or 10.
absolutly yes
10:39 you forgot to give us power consumption for 4 drives. Later you just gave for 2 drives...
7:41 just dew it :)