Raspberry Pi 5 NVME PCIe HAT For Raspberry Pi 5

NVPI5-2242T 2230 2242 M-Key PIP PCIe Peripheral Board PCIe GEN 3

Features:

• Compatible with other HAT shield
• Support boot from the NVMe drive
• 30mm length Flat Flex Cable
• Supports installation of official active coolers
• Dual LED Indicators: “PWR” and “ACT”
• Supports 2230/2242 NVME M2 SSD only
• 40-Pin Raspberry Pi HAT Connector Support
• M.2 Standard-Compliant Power System

Packing List:

• 1 x NVPI5-2242T
• 2 x PCIe FFC cable (30mm length)
• 2 x PCIe FFC cable (60mm length)
• 4 x M2.5x14mm F/F Spacers
• 4 x M2.5x6+6mm F/M Spacers
• 5 x M2.5x5mm Screws
• 2 x M2x4mm Screws
• 1x 40-pin male-female HAT connector

How to use?

Enabling PCIe

Add the following option into /boot/firmware/config.txt and reboot:

# Enable the PCIe external connector.

dtparam=pciex1

PCIe Gen 3.0

The connection is certified for Gen 2.0 speeds (5 GT/sec), but you can force it to Gen 3.0 (10 GT/sec) if you add the following lines to your /boot/firmware/config.txt.

# Enable the PCIe external connector

dtparam=pciex1

# Force Gen 3.0 speeds

dtparam=pciex1_gen=3

WARNING
The Raspberry Pi 5 is not certified for Gen 3.0 speeds, and connections to PCIe devices at these speeds may be unstable.
You should then reboot your Raspberry Pi for these settings to take effect.

Booting from PCIe

Once enabled, and after rebooting, an NVMe disk attached via the PCIe should be visible. However, your Raspberry Pi won’t try to boot from the NVMe drive. If you wish to enable boot support you will need to change the BOOT_ORDER in the bootloader configuration. Edit the EEPROM configuration by:

sudo rpi-eeprom-config --edit

and change the BOOT_ORDER line to be as below.

BOOT_ORDER=0xf416

If you are booting from a non-HAT+ device you should also add:

PCIE_PROBE=1

to the EEPROM configuration.