by Jonathan Updated May 14, 2021 Published May 14, 2021 Raspberry Pi News 12g, 24g, 48g, adapter, backplane, benchmark, broadcom, Cables, card, chia, cm4, cm6, compute module, computers, computing, controller, cryptocurrency, elrond, enterprise, flash, gen 2, gen 4, hard drive, HDD, hot-plug, hot-swap, intel, io board, Jeff Geerling, kioxia, lanes, megaraid, nvme, pci express, pcie, performance, pm6, raid, raspberry pi, sas, servers, SFF-TA-1001, SFF-TA-1005, solid state drive, ssd, storage, surprise, surprise plug, test, tri-mode, u.2, u.3, u2, u3, ubm, universal backplane management
It took some convincing, but KIOXIA sent me two of their latest Enterprise SSDs, the PM6 SAS 24G drive, and the CM6 PCIe NVMe drive, and I test them using the MegaRAID card and ‘Elrond’ storage enclosure sent to me by Broadcom. How do the drives perform?...
by Jonathan Updated Feb 26, 2021 Published Feb 26, 2021 Raspberry Pi News backplane, benchmark, broadcom, btrfs, bus, card, debug, driver, edsff, enterprise, hardware, hba, host bus adapter, Jeff Geerling, kernel, linux, lsi, mini sas, nas, nfs, nvme, pci, pci express, pcie, performance, pi os, rack, raid, raspberry pi, recompile, samba, sas, SATA, sbc, SFF-8639, SFF-TA-1001, SFF-TA-1005, small form factor, smb, Software, storage, storcli, u.2, u.3, uart, ubuntu, zfs
Finally, with a bit of help from some Broadcom engineers, I got full hardware RAID working on a Raspberry Pi. And I actually used SAS drives this time. Special thanks to Broadcom for sending me a controller card and storage backplane to test on the Pi, and for their...
by Jonathan Updated Feb 19, 2021 Published Feb 19, 2021 Raspberry Pi News 8260ngw, alftel, ax200, bcm94360ng, broadcom, card, Case, coral, edge, google, ids, intel, intrusion detection, Jeff Geerling, kali, killer1535, kismet, linux, m.2, m2, mini itx, nvme, pci, pci express, pcie, penetration testing, raspberry pi, ssd, switch, tpu, vulnerability, wardriving, white hat, wifi
I take Alftel Systems’ 12-slot PCI Express M.2 carrier board for a spin on my Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4, and mention their soon-to-be-announced ‘Seaberry’ Mini ITX board for the Compute Module! Check out all the neat stuff Alftel makes:...
by Jonathan Updated Jan 15, 2021 Published Jan 15, 2021 Raspberry Pi News 4g, 5g, arm, board, boards, card, Case, cm4, compute module, compute module 4, computer, custom, cutie pi, cutiepi, desktop, emulation, emulation station, expansion, games, gaming, gigabit, Handheld, itx, Jeff Geerling, maker, micro atx, mini itx, mini pcie, moonlight, motherboard, nano, nas, openwrt, overboard, pc play, pcie, pi, portable, raspberry pi, raspberry pi os, retro pie, RetroPie, router, SATA, sbc, soc, steam link, switch, tablet, turing pi, wifi, windows, wireless
I keep finding amazing new custom CM4 boards and projects, and I can’t help but share them with you! Find all the ones I’m aware of in this GitHub issue: https://github.com/geerlingguy/raspberry-pi-pcie-devices/issues/25 And follow along with all the other...
by Jonathan Updated Dec 30, 2020 Published Dec 30, 2020 Raspberry Pi News 10g, 16x, 1x, bar, base address register, card, compilation, cross compile, debug, dmesg, driver, drivers, expansion, Jeff Geerling, kernel, linux, lspci, memory, module, nas, nvme, pci, pci express, pcie, powered, psu, raspberry pi, riser, SATA, slot, Software, storage
The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 IO Board exposes an x1 PCI Express Gen 2.0 slot. What can you do with the slot? And are there any tips or tricks to make sure you don’t accidentally cook a PCIe card—or the Pi? See all the cards I am testing:...
