Raspberry Pi 5 add-on boards that allow you to attach a PCIe NVMe solid state drive to the little computer are becoming so common that I told myself I wasn’t going to write about new models anymore.

Although the Raspberry Pi 5 has a PCIe interface, it doesn’t have a slot for a PCIe SSD. There’s now a whole range of plug-in boards (HATs = Hardware Attached on Top) for retrofitting SSDs. They ...

The Raspberry Pi 5 is several times faster than previous models of the compact and cheap computer. For less than a couple hundred bucks, you can have a computer that can do many tasks that previously ...

Sunfounder’s Pironman line of cases for the Raspberry Pi 5 do a lot more than cover up and protect the single-board computer. Models like the Pironman 5, Pironman 5-MAX, and Pironman 5-Mini also give ...

‘Boy, I wish the Raspberry Pi had a SATA port’. This is the plea that echoes through the Internet, and for once, the Internet is not wrong. A SATA port — or any connector to a big, dumb spinny disk — ...

Western Digital has delivered a new hard-disk drive designed for the Raspberry Pi that uses a USB interface instead of the more conventional SATA interface. 1. The WD PiDrive kit includes a hydra ...

For storage, I will be using an M.2 SATA SSD and a 256GB thumb drive. I will also be using an Ubuntu VM to test the SATA drive to see what kind of throughput I can get from the M.2 drive. Although ...