pi5 and nvme

Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:07:41 GMT

So once the raspberry pi became availabe I purchased one.
The first pi I ever owned was a raspberry pi 2, it was a slug bug except for the simplest of tasks.
I have owned several pi 3's, a pi zero and a pi zero 2 w, and several pi 4's.
The pi 3 was much more useful than the pi 2 and the pi 4 was approaching usable for desktop use.

When I purchased the pi 5 I had heard the hype about how it was much faster than the pi 4 but to be
honest I was dissapointed. It was a little faster but not much. and for some reason about every couple of
months it would bork the sd card and I would have to reinstall. I finally purchased one of those high
endurance sd cards thinking that they would last longer. However I decided about that time to try an
nvme hat from geekworm and a patriot gen3 nvme drive.
I set boot to do nvme first then booted from the nvme drive cloned from the sdcard. (BOOT_ORDER=0xf416)
in /boot/firmware/config.txt
Holy Cow! What a difference. suddenly my pi 5 was a speed demon. chrome which always took several seconds to
load was now popping right up.

I also enabled gen3 speeds which is expiramental. that makes it faster but not profoundly faster.

If you are running pi5 from an SD Card, I highly reccomend you try nvme.
I will come back here with stabilty results after using it for a few months.

Have fun!