Slow cards sabotaged my favorite projects My Raspberry Pi has powered everything from a Home Assistant hub to a personal Git server, yet microSD cards constantly mess with my uptime.

My Raspberry Pi doesn't need peripherals like a display, keyboard, or mouse to be a vital part of my home lab.

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.

Since the introduction of the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4, power users have wanted to use NVMe drives with the diminutive ARM board.