1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:06,680 if you're anything like me you're a fan of computers you know we got laptops 2 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:10,840 like this we've got gaming computers but sometimes those are too big sometimes we 3 00:00:09,040 --> 00:00:15,400 need computers that are a little bit smaller like the Raspberry Pi a 4 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:19,600 world-renowned small single board computer this this if you're not 5 00:00:17,359 --> 00:00:24,320 familiar is a whole computer on a little board like this they're small they don't 6 00:00:22,119 --> 00:00:28,320 draw very much power and they can be pretty powerful relative to the size but 7 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:32,399 there are some limitations first and foremost you see that right there that 8 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:35,559 is a Micro SD slot and that is the primary method of storage on this thing 9 00:00:34,480 --> 00:00:39,920 and if you've ever played around with micro SD cards in pretty much any 10 00:00:37,559 --> 00:00:44,640 capacity you probably know that they are prone to failure Andy how many SD cards 11 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:51,000 do you think have died in the the course of us working here I'll be tund really 12 00:00:48,079 --> 00:00:55,440 yeah holy crap yeah finished lost oh losing them for sure but more 13 00:00:53,079 --> 00:00:59,160 specifically the endurance is the problem you can't write files to them 14 00:00:57,239 --> 00:01:04,559 too many times before they just actually wear out and when you run a full 15 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:08,040 computer operating system like rasbian which is just Linux you're going to 16 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:11,920 write to the thing you might write a log file you know once every few seconds and 17 00:01:10,159 --> 00:01:16,759 eventually it just wears out the other annoying part is powering the thing 18 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:20,799 these use USBC but a common use case for a small computer like this is to embed 19 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:26,240 it in something like I don't know like a a menu board at McDonald's or digital 20 00:01:23,119 --> 00:01:27,960 signage or something that controls your 21 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:33,159 sprinklers you can use them for anything but it's just kind of annoying to get around those problems s now in order to 22 00:01:31,119 --> 00:01:36,600 expand the functionality and solve some of the problems I'm talking about people 23 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:41,399 have developed things called Raspberry Pi hats which are just little boards 24 00:01:39,159 --> 00:01:45,360 that sit on top of your Raspberry Pi kind of like a hat to expand the 25 00:01:43,399 --> 00:01:51,360 functionality and the coolest part about these newer Raspberry Pi 5ivs is they 26 00:01:47,799 --> 00:01:53,600 actually have a PCIe connection a 1x PCI 27 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:58,640 Gen 2 Lane but you can set it to run at gen 3 speeds not a ton of bandwidth but 28 00:01:56,439 --> 00:02:04,920 enough to run something like this which is an m.2 SSD and these these 29 00:02:02,799 --> 00:02:09,119 have endurance way more than a Micro SD card anyways but that still leaves us 30 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:16,000 with the problem of power and now finally with a solution the pine board 31 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:18,599 hat Drive PoE plus which as the name 32 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:23,400 implies hat drive it's a hat that has a drive and also has PoE plus if you're 33 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:27,599 not familiar with PoE or power over Ethernet um that basically explains it 34 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:34,400 the Ethernet that's already on this Raspberry Pi 5 you can use to power the 35 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:37,360 Raspberry Pi and then you also have boom 36 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:40,480 an m.2 slot that means you've solved your power problem you've solved your 37 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:46,080 storage problem and you can put this thing somewhere and hopefully not have to worry about it and not have to run a 38 00:02:44,319 --> 00:02:50,200 power cable as for what else came in the box with our hat Drive PoE we have nine 39 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:53,440 screws eight of which are going to be used for these little standoff things 40 00:02:51,640 --> 00:02:57,640 that'll hold our board above the Raspberry Pi and the ninth one will be 41 00:02:55,159 --> 00:03:00,720 for screwing in our m.2 SSD we have a little ribbon cable that'll handle our 42 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:06,040 PCIe connection between the rasp pie and this board for that SSD we have a pin 43 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:10,319 extension this one's cool it's a little four pin and if you look on the 44 00:03:07,879 --> 00:03:15,480 Raspberry Pi you can see four little pins by the Ethernet Jack those are 45 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:17,599 specifically there for handling PoE so 46 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:23,680 if PoE power comes into this it's going to extend off of those and then now it 47 00:03:20,519 --> 00:03:26,040 can reach the board which goes more like 48 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:29,920 this we'll put that on in a sec then there's the pin extension for the gpio 49 00:03:27,959 --> 00:03:33,560 pins on the Raspberry Pi and a little spacer do add for the m.2 to sit nicely 50 00:03:32,239 --> 00:03:36,879 I don't know products like this that are meant for like nerdy nerds sometimes 51 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:41,480 they just don't even come with instructions you just got to you just 52 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:48,200 got to figure it out like with um our LTT Precision screwdriver set right here 53 00:03:44,159 --> 00:03:49,519 M very orange very precise very LTT 54 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:54,159 store I think I'm going to use a different Raspberry Pi uh I want to use 55 00:03:51,799 --> 00:03:58,519 one that has the official raspberry pie cooler on it a just so it runs a little 56 00:03:56,840 --> 00:04:03,280 bit cooler and B because I want to know if it all still fits got our standoffs 57 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:09,400 on there see that there it says PCIe that's where we want to go and the metal 58 00:04:06,319 --> 00:04:11,200 parts of the ribbon should face inward 59 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:17,079 now for the fun part trying to stick this on while also inserting the 60 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:19,199 connector here not always the easiest 61 00:04:17,079 --> 00:04:25,199 thing to do this is kind of weird the way this is laid out because those GPO 62 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:28,040 pins like they are accessible like you 63 00:04:25,199 --> 00:04:32,199 could solder to them but they're they're only kind of accessible they don't stick 64 00:04:30,199 --> 00:04:36,919 out very far and now we can install our SSD if you're not going to use a 2280 65 00:04:34,479 --> 00:04:41,919 SSD which uses this hole right here you're going to use this little insert 66 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:44,400 guy except you need to do that before 67 00:04:41,919 --> 00:04:49,600 you mount the board it has a little notch in it and 68 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:51,440 that is what holds the SSD in place so 69 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:57,080 the idea is you would screw this little holder in from the bottom and that would 70 00:04:54,600 --> 00:05:02,320 hold the SSD down on the top we don't need to worry about that for the SSD 71 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:04,680 that we're using this Sabin gen 3 4 tbte 72 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:09,560 because it uses the already soldered in place stock hole look at that we now 73 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:15,160 have a Raspberry Pi with a 4 tbyte SSD on it and I don't 74 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:18,120 even need a power cable all I need is to plug that Ethernet Jack in and we're 75 00:05:16,639 --> 00:05:24,000 going to be good to go oh God this is overkill an Enterprise 76 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:30,280 48 PoE but I didn't have a smaller PoE switch so deal with it now we get to 77 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:35,800 plug it in and see if she works but not before I tell you about our 78 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:40,400 sponsor vessie here in 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need to make sure 88 00:06:15,280 --> 00:06:21,280 your switches PoE plus like this ubiquity Enterprise 48 PoE and that 89 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:25,840 means the Raspberry Pi gets full power 5 volts 5 amps 25 watts on this board so 90 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:29,000 you're not going to have any issues with USB peripherals if you plug them in uh 91 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:32,720 and apparently you don't even need to do any config the rasie will just be aware 92 00:06:31,479 --> 00:06:36,840 that it's getting sufficient power which is great now I'm not actually sure how 93 00:06:34,479 --> 00:06:41,240 you get an operating system on here cuz it's not like you know you're not 94 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:45,280 entering the BIOS of your Raspberry Pi usually you flash an image to the micro 95 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:48,960 SD card with something like etcher according to the instructions on Pine 96 00:06:46,759 --> 00:06:54,120 board's website as long as the raspy has new enough firmware all we have to do is 97 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:56,919 plug it into an internet connection and 98 00:06:54,120 --> 00:07:01,360 one that has PoE uh and it should bring up like the firmware installer over the 99 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:06,599 internet I don't know if it's actually going to work this SSD is technically 100 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:09,039 not brand new I did format it so all it 101 00:07:06,599 --> 00:07:15,160 has on it is a GPT partition table but no partition so hopefully it works oh oh 102 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:18,840 okay I guess you just need to plug in a keyboard and then it changes press and 103 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:23,560 hold shift to stop Boot and start net install I had no idea you could do this 104 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:27,280 on a raspi this is so cool now if you don't have any storage in your Raspberry 105 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:31,919 Pi this is not going to be useful but we have this NVMe SSD So in theory once 106 00:07:29,759 --> 00:07:35,720 this boots up and loads the installer looks like it's downloading right now 107 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:41,039 we'll be able to install Ras pios onto the nbme drive without having to do 108 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:43,000 anything weird no SD card required no I 109 00:07:41,039 --> 00:07:46,080 don't know on the-go cable whatever we should just be able to do it like this 110 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:50,639 now if you already have a working Raspberry Pi 5 with an SD card and 111 00:07:48,639 --> 00:07:54,840 you're wanting to add the NVMe drive on after there are tools you can use to 112 00:07:52,199 --> 00:08:00,360 clone the drive hey look at that H Raspberry Pi with an NVMe drive 113 00:07:58,479 --> 00:08:04,120 that's sick all right now that we've got the rasp piie working and running off of 114 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:08,240 our NVMe drive I want to do a speed test but before we can do that uh by default 115 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:15,039 the Raspberry Pi is going to be running this SSD at PCI Gen 2 by one which is 116 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:21,479 not that fast but it is what the PCIe connection on a pi5 is certified for 117 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:24,840 however you can tell it to run at gen 3 118 00:08:21,479 --> 00:08:27,720 speeds and that will be twice as fast so 119 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:32,519 I'm going to do that it's pretty simple you just go into the firmware configur 120 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:39,000 ation thanks uh Jeff ging for this lovely set of instructions here and add 121 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:41,000 a little line like this DT Pam I'm just 122 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:45,360 going to copy paste it cuz that's easier let's see if we're running at the 123 00:08:42,599 --> 00:08:52,320 correct speed now Fon Speed 8 gig transfers per second width by one woohoo 124 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:58,480 you can see it wants byy four because this SSD is a buy4 connection by default 125 00:08:55,279 --> 00:09:01,440 um but we should be able to run at like 126 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:04,720 a gigabyte a a second potentially okay we're ready to do a little speed test 127 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:08,600 we're going to be using fio flexible IO tester which is a little command line 128 00:09:06,079 --> 00:09:13,160 utility and then I've got HTP over here which will show us the CPU usage and the 129 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:17,920 disc iio and whatnot in theory the peak we can get is 1 gab per second hopefully 130 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:23,920 we can get pretty close to that hey look at that we're doing 131 00:09:20,360 --> 00:09:25,600 780 is MB bytes per second which is 132 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:31,959 probably 800 something megabytes a second it'll tell us at the end let's 133 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:35,680 see our right speed 7 80 MB bytes or 820 134 00:09:31,959 --> 00:09:38,120 megabytes per second that's not 100% of 135 00:09:35,680 --> 00:09:44,519 what this PCI Lane can do but pretty dang close let's try read speed now yeah 136 00:09:41,079 --> 00:09:46,320 850 mby bites what a weird word mby 137 00:09:44,519 --> 00:09:53,079 bites Gibby bites is not nearly as bad but mby almost 900 megabytes a second 138 00:09:49,839 --> 00:09:55,440 pretty sick eh off of a Raspberry Pi and 139 00:09:53,079 --> 00:10:00,200 like to be honest I mean the m.2 is getting a little bit warm but if we're 140 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:06,600 being honest with ourselves warm to the touch is not that warm computer-wise the 141 00:10:03,680 --> 00:10:10,160 point is the m.2 worked we didn't like lose power or anything while it was 142 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:14,399 running a speed test it's exactly what I hoped for So in theory you can just take 143 00:10:11,959 --> 00:10:18,600 this Raspberry Pi unplug all this crap so we've just got Ethernet doing our 144 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:23,519 power we can get this monitor out of here no keyboard no mouse just an 145 00:10:21,399 --> 00:10:27,040 Ethernet cable with PoE we've got a super fast Raspberry Pi that can do 146 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:30,480 almost a gigabyte read and write per second and we don't have to worry about 147 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:33,839 the endurance of a little micro SD card now this thing can get stuffed in a menu 148 00:10:31,959 --> 00:10:38,480 board somewhere or in a drop ceiling or whatever it would be cool to take like 149 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:42,000 three of them and you could build like a cluster of raspberry pies or maybe 20 of 150 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:45,399 them and then put them in a rack and you don't have to run some stupid power spot 151 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:51,040 you just got PoE and you're good to go it's kind of 152 00:10:47,079 --> 00:10:52,639 awesome how much does this cost €44 and 153 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:58,240 it's sold out well at some point you'll be able to 154 00:10:55,160 --> 00:11:01,120 get one what's €44 so roughly 155 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:04,600 $465 for this board that would take your Raspberry Pi to be a little bit more 156 00:11:03,079 --> 00:11:09,600 expensive I don't think it's going to be the best price to Performance if that's 157 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:12,800 what you're going for but if you just need one you need something small and 158 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:18,399 you need it stashed out of the way somewhere you don't need to worry about it this seems like a pretty awesome 159 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:23,120 single board Computer Solution I wish they just came like this like Raspberry 160 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:28,120 Pi 6 that better have PoE and an m.2 slot come on so thanks for watching guys 161 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:32,120 if you like this video hit the like button get subscribed and if you want 162 00:11:29,680 --> 00:11:36,440 something else to watch maybe check out the video I did on this MacBook I'm 163 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:40,040 using it now I don't own it but I am using it and I quite like it