Could SMARC RB5 support M.2 SSD ?

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  Peter Chao

  11/10/23, 2:06 AM

  Dear Sirs, 

  Could SMARC RB5 support M.2 SSD?

  Thanks

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  Master of SMARC Staff member

  11/13/23, 5:22 AM

  Hi Peter, 

  It certainly does, there are 2 PCIe lanes going to the M.2 connector which would give you a very decent speed 

  other 2 PCIe lanes go to connector B, this could be 5G modem for example.

   

   

   

   

   

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  Peter Chao

  11/13/23, 7:26 AM

  @Master of SMARC 

  We connect a M.2 SSD to connect B, but we have not got any messages from linux kernel.

  The SSD we use is Transcend  TS1TMTS430S, it is a M.2 2242 SSD. 

  https://tw.transcend-info.com/product/internal-ssd/mts430s 

  RB5 Images version is LEC-RB5-8G-FHD-UBUNTU_20_04-HLOS_2v1.0.2_23_08_07

  Best Regards, 

  Peter

   

   

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  Master of SMARC Staff member

  11/14/23, 6:21 AM

  Peter, 

  Looking at the partnumber you provided this is a SATA drive, note that you need NVMe storage 

  Sadly SATA is on it's way out in most of the arm based SOC's 

   

   

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