A PCIe to M.2 M-Key adapter board designed for the Raspberry Pi 5, compatible with M.2 hard drives in 2230 / 2242 / 2280 form factors, supporting Gen2 and Gen3 modes, and enabling boot-up of the Pi 5 from an SSD.
It supports M.2 interface hard drives with the NVMe protocol, featuring high-speed reading and writing as well as high work efficiency.
It supports PCIe x1, along with Gen2 and Gen3 modes.
The Raspberry Pi 5 has not passed Gen 3.0 speed certification, so connecting to PCIe devices at Gen3 speed may result in instability.
Only compatible with the Pi 5B.
The SSD can be used as a boot drive or additional storage; when used solely for storage expansion, the system boots from a TF card.
It supports 2230/2242/2280 NVMe M.2 SSDs.
It can be connected to the Pi 5 via an FFC cable, and the expansion board is powered directly from the FFC PCIe interface.
The power circuit of the expansion board is designed for a 2A current. Restricted by the current limit of the Raspberry Pi 5's PCIe interface (5V 1A), it can provide an output of over 3.3V 1.5A to the solid-state drive.
Typically, the rated current of a solid-state drive can be 2.5A, 2.7A, or even 3A, but these currents correspond to the maximum limit in x4 mode.
Since the Raspberry Pi 5 only supports x1 mode, the actual current used is far lower than the rated current.
It is equipped with an on-board power indicator light and a read-write ACT indicator light.
It supports the installation of both official active coolers and third-party coolers.