Now, the Raspberry Pi 5 has a lovely new PCIe port right on board, and [Jeff Geerling] has gone right ahead and slammed in an NVMe SSD as a boot drive. [Jeff] explains that to use an NVMe to boot ...

The end result is a cool Pi ... cost Raspberry Pi 5 2GB or you could get away with using an older model, but you'll find the best performance with the Pi 5 and accompanying Pimoroni NVMe Base.

(Credit: Jeff Geerling) Most of the changes relative to the RP400 are as expected, with the change to the same BCM2712 SoC as on the Raspberry Pi 5, while ... with no M.2 NVMe slot option built ...

2 HAT adds a pair of slots that can each handle up to 2TB of NVMe storage ... that the HAT won’t fit inside the official Raspberry Pi 5 case. Seeed Studio has helpfully shared a STEP file ...