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Compatibility
Customers are highly satisfied with the compatibility of the ORICO M.2 NVMe SSD for use in various applications including as an internal drive, external drive, or bootable drive on Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Laptop. The product has been reported to work perfectly and seamlessly in these configurations.
Highlights
Quality
Set this up as an external drive using an oricio external 2280 nvme case and everything worked perfectly.
Wanted this to be a bootable drive so, once mounted, i first formatted the drive using macos > utilities > disk utility.
However, in crystal disk mark i did see very respectable sequential read and write speeds of 875 and 940 mb/sec, as well as dec... Read More
It's great if you just need a cheap ssd to replace an old computer hard drive or if your just staring out and plan to replace i... Read More
Price
2 nvme ssd, pcie gen3x4 2280 ssd - up to 2400mb/s, internal solid state drive with tlc nand flash, compatible with raspberry pi... Read More
At the time of this review, this ssd was going for under 20, which is a nice price.
These are cheap and they work well.
Competitiveness
It might be less reliable, but then again, i've never had any of my many ssds fail on me, either name-brand or generic.
Overview
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- This product had a total of 68 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 20 2024.
Helpful InsightsBETA
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Ive been a pi person since the the pi 3 b models and ive dealt with sd card failures and the slower boot times
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Pi 5 promised to change that and it did if you couple it with a decent ssd
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I am blown away by the boot times using this ssd
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Youre going to hit a cpu limit before a bus limitations kick in
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I’m reviewing the oricio 256gb m
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I tested the drive by copying several small files and then several large files
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I saw numbers in the mid 300mb range so not quite instant but even larger projects should copy at a reasonable enough rate
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I didnt test this ssd in an internal m