General discussion • Re: The best SD Card for Raspberry Pi 5?

frankly, I would buy an SSD or NVME drive to use with a Pi 5.

I have a Pi 5 booting via USB from an SSD, I am constantly surprised how fast it boots and runs.

Yes, agreed!
But, I think the NVMe Gen 3 interface its faster than USB 3 though.

My Samsung 990 Pro card reports:

Code:

$ sudo hdparm -t /dev/nvme0n1p2/dev/nvme0n1p2: Timing buffered disk reads: 2602 MB in  3.00 seconds = 866.80 MB/sec$ 

What does your USB connected SSD say?

My understanding is hdparm is not a benchmark to compare storage but intended to verify that the correct DMA level was set for PATA drives.

Statistics: Posted by ejolson — Wed Jan 08, 2025 9:31 pm

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