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Raspberry Pi 500 review with Raspberry Pi Monitor and teardown
- wkat4242 2y agoI wonder if soldering the M.2 connector is really all that's needed to support NVMe. Did someone try it yet? Perhaps they gave up on it for a technical reason.
- doubled112 2y agohttps://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/pi-500-much-faster-lacks-m2 https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/pi-500-much-faster-la... > none of the M.2 power circuit pads on the underside of the board are populated, thus the slot gets no power. There are also a couple missing capacitors on the matched PCIe traces coming from the BCM2712 SoC
- wkat4242 2y agoThanks! Meh, too bad. microSD is really bad for desktop usecases. Especially mixed reads/writes. Because they are optimised for large contiguous files. There's some that are more optimised for this but they age quicker which is also a problem: All the "endurance" cards optimise for large files also as they are made for CCTV usecases. I really disagree with this point for that reason: > Those features [PoE and M.2] are present to give us some flexibility to reuse the PCB in other contexts. We feel the feature set we've picked for the Pi 500 is the right one The right one would be an M.2 slot (ideally accessible from the outside).
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- gnabgib 2y agoDiscussion (120 points, 17 hours ago, 108 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42364038 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42364038