GeeekPi N16 Quad M.2 M-Key NVMe SSD Peripheral Board

Bought this a while ago to build a media centre, I've finaly gotten around to making it, 4 X 4tb and 2 x 2tb NVME drives, should have enough space!

I followed the Wiki to attempt to setup this board with 4x 2Tb Nvme ssd's however I fell flat when trying to format the drives individually. The line in the Wiki seems to be incorrect causing me no end of headaches. However. There was light at the end of the tunnel in the gause of Open Media Vault. This is software used to create a NAS drive out of a raspberry Pi which is exactly what I wanted. Not only did Open Media Vault allow me to find and format the drives but it also allowed me to create Raid array out fo them making them appear as one drive. Overall I'm impressed with this board but it loses a star for the frustrating rabbit hole the Wiki sent me down.

Just the right choice for my project to develop a multi-boot Raspberry Pi 5 SBC server with multi-boot functionality.

This board has serious reliability issues with controller resets. After i encoutered them i found multiple cases of the same issue online, including customers receiving a replacement & still encountering the same issue. This item should be removed from sale or the 2 drive write limitation clearly documented. neeldless to say, had i known of these issues, i would not have ordered it. details.. when 3 or 4 drivers are written to at the same time, random controller resets occur. This causes writes to fail at best and damage to the array or complete file system failure at worst. Raid configurations of 3 drivers or more drives are just unreliable, but standalone drives written to individually seem to be fine. i have tried multiple RPI's, multiple PSU's (offical RPI 5A & 100W PD, to name a few). multiple FPC cables, my own USBC PD uplink cable & multiple brands/size of NVME. I even tried throttling data uploads at the client to reduce load on the pcie switch, but in all cases the random controller resets still occur after some period of writing data to 3 or 4 drives at the same time. in conclusion, this product is not fit for the advertised purpose & will be returned.

Board is really high quality and comes with everything needed to get it set up. Had no issues configuring it all, it’s now up and running as a really compact and capable Pi based NVR!

Nice for a small NAS

On the face of it I really enjoyed playing with this nvme interface board with my pi5 - I got the version without the integrated case. I found that it was pretty straightforward to get up and running with - and I mainly used it as a learning experience to see how it might integrated in my homelab (I usually use polar-opposite hardware - ex enterprise stuff) so I was interested in the low-power draw. I did notice that I struggled with controller resets under any real sustained load, even just copying to and from for larger files. This eased when I added custom airflow to it, but didn't completely resolve - I tried various PD power sources too. It was good for a learning experience but I haven't managed to get it stable for long-term use.

The board + case option with the PCB style USB-C power connector between the board and the Pi 5 has a serious known fault where if more then two M.2a drives are used at once the controller suffers power dropouts and resets. If you fill 4 nvme slots and try to use raid 5, for example, it will fail after 10 seconds or so, and take 30 seconds to come back on line. Using each drive independently is Ok for a while, but again if 3 or 4 drives are accessed at once it will reset. Apparently - won't know til I get the replacement - the newer board with the cable power connector increases the voltage to overcome this, at the expense of increasing the heat of the nvme drives.

Ich habe das "GeeekPi | N16 Quad M.2 M-Key NVMe SSD Peripheral Board | for Raspberry Pi 5" bisher mit 2 1TB großen NVMe SSDs im Einsatz und das bisher ohne Probleme. Da die beiden SSDs aus einem anderen Projekt stammen, habe ich diese vorher formatiert und beide wurden ohne Probleme erkannt. Als Geschwindigkeits-Anbindung verwenden sie das PCIe 2.0 Protokoll. Der Raspberry Pi5 mit dem "GeeekPi | N16 Quad M.2 M-Key NVMe SSD Peripheral Board | for Raspberry Pi 5" wird als kleines NAS ohne Backup-Funktion zum Streamen von Musik und Videos genutzt, daher habe ich auch keinen Raid-Verbund eingerichtet. Da nur 2 TVs und 3 PCs, und diese nicht gleichzeitig, versorgt werden, gab es bisher keine Performance Probleme und alles lief ohne merkbare Unterbrechungen oder Ruckeln. Das "GeeekPi | N16 Quad M.2 M-Key NVMe SSD Peripheral Board | for Raspberry Pi 5" stellt eine gute Möglichkeit dar, den Raspberry Pi5 mit mehr als einer SSD auszustatten und dafür kann ich es nur empfehlen. Man muss sich allerdings, um ein passendes Gehäuse zu haben, etwas selbst drucken; ich habe, bisher kein passendes Gehäuse auf dem Markt gefunden. Hier noch ein Hinweis: ich habe dieses Produkt kostenlos erhalten, im Austausch für eine unvoreingenommene Rezension.

Tutto ok

Werkt goed, niet supersnel maar sneller dan sd kaart. Makkelijk installeren.

Contexto: como desde Amazon puedo recibir productos para probar elegí una serie de extensiones para Raspberry Pi 5, ya que pensaba comprarla en un futuro. Sin embargo he tenido varios problemas, ya que he usado tanto la tarjeta micro SDHC y el cargador de mi Raspberry Pi 4B, pero parece que no son compatibles. Por lo que la Raspberry Pi 5 va extremadamente lenta, puede tardar decenas de minutos en hacer una operación tan sencilla como abrir la línea de comandos. Por lo tanto, mi reseña se basará en mi experiencia se basará en lo poco que he podido probar. He comprado dos pares de memorias M.2 SSD de las medidas 2242 y 2280, no sé cómo habría funcionado si las hubiese probado las cuatro a la vez, pero seguramente podría haber hecho un RAID 10. Puntos positivos: - Usa el factor de forma M.2 con soporte para las diferentes medidas. - Viene en bolsa antiestática. - Viene con todo lo necesario (tornillos, soporte, mini destornillador, conectores) - Viene con manual, aunque con mi poca experiencia me ha parecido bastante confuso. Pero también trae un enlace para consultar más documentación que viene con enlaces a vídeos. He visto uno, y con él se entiende perfectamente el montaje. Puntos neutros: - Es bastante más grande que una Raspberry Pi 5, por lo que no cabría en una carcaza convencional. Debido a que hay muchos proyectos que involucran el uso de Raspberry Pis como interfaz previa al acceso de la red interna, un posible uso de esta extensión sería añadir memorias en RAID5 para alta disponibilidad e instalar un NAS des del que se pueda acceder desde Internet.

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