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Connect up to 4 M.2 NVMe SSDs to a Raspberry Pi 5 with the Geekwork X1011 board

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2024-05-05 10:00:04

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A few months ago Geekworm launched one of the first boards that allows you to connect up to two M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe SSDs to a Raspberry Pi 5.

Now the company is back with another model that supports up to four. The Geekworm X1011 add-on board for the Raspberry Pi 5 is available now for $50 from the Geekworm AliExpress shop or $51 from the Geekworm website.

The Raspberry Pi 5 is the first of Raspberry Pi’s single-board computers with a PCIe interface. By default it’s configured to support PCIe 2.0 speeds (topping out at 5 GT/s), but it is possible to configure the Pi 5 to support PCIe 3.0 SSDs as well (up to 8 GT/s). Unfortunately, this board doesn’t support that feature, as its PCI Express chip is limited to Gen 2 speeds, which means you’re unlikely to see data transfer speeds higher than 430MB/s when using the X1011 add-on board.

Add-on boards like the Geekworm X1011 make it possible to use the little computer as a network-attached storage device, among other things.