Enhance your Raspberry Pi 5 with effortless installation and lightning-fast PCIe storage speeds!

Introducing the X1011 four M.2 NVMe SSD shield, designed to provide a mass-capacity storage and high-speed storage solution for your Raspberry Pi 5. Its sleek and compact design enables easy attachment of four full-size M.2 2280 SSDs to your Raspberry Pi 5. With its PCIe 2.0 interface, you can experience data transfer rates of up to 5Gbps, allowing you to effortlessly transfer large amounts of data within seconds.

The X1011 connects to the underside of the Raspberry Pi 5, eliminating the need for a passthrough for the GPIO. This means you can use your favorite HATs while also utilizing this expansion board. Moreover, the X1011 offers versatile power options – it can draw power from the Raspberry Pi5 through pogo pins using a USB-C power supply, or alternatively, power the Raspberry Pi5 from the X1011 using a DC power adapter via the onboard DC power jack, streamlining the power supply process to a single source.

The X1011 is an ideal storage solution for creating a home media center or building a network-attached storage (NAS) system. It allows you to store and stream your own videos, music, and digital photos within your home or even remotely across the world.

Compatible With
- Raspberry Pi 5B

- The perfect storage solution for your Raspberry Pi 5 - the M.2 NVMe 4 SSD Shield
- Supports a total of 16TB storage capacity (4TB x4) with M.2 NVMe solid-state drives
- Accommodates various M.2 NVMe SSD form factors, including 2280, 2260, 2242, and 2230
- Provides speedy data transfer with PCIe 2.0 5Gbps
- LED indicators in blue display power and drive status
- Features an integrated high-performance PCIe packet switch
- Equipped with high-efficiency DC/DC step-down converter, delivering a maximum of 10A to power your SSDs

- Powering via both pogo pins & FFC or DC power jack, ensuring sufficient power supply without any worries
- Designed to be attached on bottom, allows using your favorite HATs alongside it
- Compatible with the HAT+ STANDBY power state, automatically turning off when the Pi 5 shuts down.

- Compatible with the official active cooler without affecting cooling performance 

* The X1011 is designed specifically for data storage purposes and does not currently support NVMe boot with the existing firmware.

The X1011 currently does not support all RAID types, including RAID 1 and ZFS. This might be due to driver compatibility issues, which are yet to be confirmed and advised. The X1011 is a collection of four M.2 SSD drives recognized as separate drives by the OS. It uses the ASM1184e PCI express packet switch, with 1 PCIe x1 Gen2 upstream port to 4 PCIe x1 Gen2 downstream ports, enabling users to extend PCIe ports on a Raspberry Pi 5.

To verify whether it is a hardware problem:

1. Clear any RAID settings and mount each drive as a separate volume.

2. Open a second terminal to Monitor for any NVMe errors (I/O timeout, reset controller, I/O error, etc.):

3. Create a 30GB testing file on one of the SSDs:

4. Copy the 30GB file to multiple SSDs simultaneously (pls change the path you want to copy it to):

Test Conditions

-System board details: Raspberry Pi 5 Model B Rev 1.0 , 4G RAM

-Interface board details: X1011 v1.1 NVMe dual SSD Shield

-Operation system: Raspberry Pi OS with desktop (Debian12 (bookworm), 64bit, Release date: December 5th 2023)

-Storage details: Colorful CN600 120G, Samsung PM961 120G, Netec N930E 120G, Silicon Power P34A60 120GB 

Testing disk drives read speed at PCIe2.0 with hdparm

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