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.

The M.2 HatDrive Bottom is an innovative accessory that can make this a reality. This PCI adapter board is designed to fit snugly under your Raspberry Pi 5, enabling you to connect an M.2 NVMe SSD.

CEO Eben Upton explains in a new blog post that the Raspberry Pi Foundation has the first SSD kits ready for purchase. It's not all-new hardware, though. The kits are bundles consisting of a 2230 ...

This board is designed to be mounted to the bottom of a Raspberry Pi 5 and connects to the computer via a flex cable. It supports M.2 2232, 2242, and 2280 SSDs with speeds up to 800MB/s thanks to ...

Will Whang's RPI5-SDexpress-Hat is a small HAT+ for the Raspberry Pi 5, adding a microSD Express card slot for ultrafast ...

The Pironman 5 case is built with a sturdy aluminum frame, this case offers superior cooling, NVMe M.2 SSD support, an OLED display, and customizable RGB lighting.

The Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+ is an add-on board for connecting M.2 M-key compatible devices to the Raspberry Pi 5. It has a data transfer speed of up to 500MB/s and costs $12 (approximately 1,880 yen).

You're on your own for water cooling, though. Interestingly, the new drives are PCIe Gen 3, but the Raspberry Pi 5 spec sheet says it only supports PCIe Gen 2.