AAAwave NVMe Base Duo M.2 HAT PCIe Extension w/ (2-Pack) of 500 GB M.2 2280 Internal Solid State Drive SSD

NVMe Base Duo M.2 HAT PCIe Extension with (2-Pack) 500GB M.2 2280 Internal SSD NVMe Base Duo is a PCIe Gen 2 extension board for Raspberry Pi 5. Simply populate it with one or two M-key NVMe SSDs (2230 to 2280 sizes supported) and mount it under (or over) your Pi for a compact and fast storage solution - It even comes with rubber feet! It's the perfect solution for turning your Raspberry Pi 5 into a file server, media centre, reverse proxy, home automation server with built in backup, etc. - really any task that benefits from large amounts of fast storage, redundancy, or just to make use of a couple of spare disks - especially with random high operations per second (IOPS) workloads. In short it's a game changer! NVMe Base Duo follows the new "PIP" design guidelines provided by Raspberry Pi ensuring that it will be easy to use and be supported long term by updates to Raspberry Pi OS - though it is very early days and things are improving rapidly there! NOTE: You cannot boot from NVMe drives installed on NVMe Base Duo. We hope the RPi 5 firmware will support this in the future, but for now, it can only boot from drives that are the root device on the PCIe Bus. i.e. not behind a packet switcher/multiplexer. You'll need to boot from SD and then the system can handover to the pair of fast SSDs! Base Kit NVMe Base Duo PCB with two M.2 slots (M-Key) 'PCIe Flex' Flat Flex Cable 4x Rubber feet 4x M2 bolt and 2x 5mm standoffs for SSD mounting 4x 12mm M2.5 standoffs for base mounting 8x short M2.5 bolts for base mounting 4x 20mm M2.5 bolts for 'pass-thru' mounting with a HAT 2 x 500GB SSDs