Samsung SSD 256GB PM991 M.2 2242 42mm PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe MZALQ256HAJD MZ-ALQ2560 Solid State Drive

Nice, fast little Samsung M.2 2242 NVMe drive works great with the "Geekworm X1003 Tiny PCIe to M.2 HAT" on the Raspberry Pi 5 at PCIe 3 bus setting. The drive was securely packaged in a small zippered anti-static bag. I ended up purchasing a second one as a gift to a friend who's also very happy with the drive.

The Geekworm wiki is out of date FYI. This drive works great with Raspberry pi 5 and the x1003. I even have it running in forced PCIe Gen3 mode. I see a solid 800 Mbytes/s performance which is about what I would expect for gen3 at 1 lane. - the trick to get this working is you need to update your eeprom on the RPI5. Ubuntu does not update apparently so the only way to flash the eeprom to the latest is to cut a sd card with the raspberry pi os. run rpi-eeprom-update -a and then reboot. you can then connect the drive and everything works great. I had ubuntu on a sd car which I plugged into USB port on the pi and used the raspberry pi os "clone" feature to copy the os over to the NVMe drive. Then you just need to change the boot priority to NVMe and you're good to go

I bought this drive to go in my OrangePi 5 to install the OS on instead of using a Micro SD Card. It fit as expected and runs the OS much faster than the traditional Micros SD card. I had not problems removing it from the unit and putting it in an external NVME case to transfer data. It doesn't run hot and it reads at a decent speed for PCI 3.0 storage. Price seemed reasonable at the time, no idea how much it costs when you read this, so shop around.

I almost returned because my device wouldn't recognize it. Then I realized it might needed to be formatted first. Then it was available for use.

here is the killer combo for the case, nvme hat and ssd for the raspberry pi 5. easy to connect in a few minutes. i removed the micro sd card to make sure only the ssd was being used. then i connected it to ethernet and booted up the pi. just hold down shift when you see the boot menu and it will download and install from the internet your OS distribution on the ssd. i am seeing speeds about 10x faster now. very happy with this combo. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CMZ84GM8?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08K79T9G5?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CSFHTJP8?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

We purchased 4 of these drives so far. We have customers that their hard drives have failed and this Samsung is a great alternative at a much cheaper price than OEM hard drives. I cannot speak on the perfromance for gaming, but for your standard computer at work or shcool, this is great.

Worked as intended. Using it right now.

It was so much faster then their old ssd drives. It was like magic to them. Their old SSD's i put them in to Raid-0 so their games would load faster. I told them games only in the raid-0 since you can always re-download them. Everything else backup and in a single ssd drive. I tell themt o lead their Drive with the operating system as empty as possible.

Je l'ai pris, avant tout, pour ses dimensions particulières. Il a des performances correctes sans plus mais ce n'était pas ma priorité. Il me sert surtout à étendre la capacité de stockage d'un portable dont le SSD principal est soudé.

لا أنصح بالتعامل معه بالفعل وصلني حاجه غير اللي طلبتها هو مفكرنا عبط موش بنفهم

Lo cambié por el que venía en el portátil, es rápido, estoy contento con el.

Raspberry Pi 5＋GeekwormのX1000 にSSDメモリーとして本製品を取り付け利用している。問題なく動作し、速度も雑誌の記事からのデータと比較しても、十分に早いよう。評価にある耐久性や長持ち？は、試用期間も短いことから不明です。長さが42mmなので、Hatからはみ出ることもない。

Tut ihren Dienst klaglos im Raspberry Pi 5, habe aber keine Durchsatzmessung gemacht.