Subj : Re: Pi 5 and NVMe SSD
To   : Richard Kettlewell
From : Pancho
Date : Thu May 23 2024 09:44:46

On 23/05/2024 09:03, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> writes:
>> No problems with wimpy power supplies? apparently pi's and ssds take a
>> lot of current at boot time
>
> It’s the official PSU.
>

I bought a Pi5 without the official PSU, or even a Pi4 official PSU. It
would run for a minute or two and then crash. Completely unusable. It is
now fine with the official PSU. I hadn't realised my high wattage USB
chargers achieved the high wattage by negotiating a higher voltage. A
strategy which was unusable by the Pi. The Pi being non-standard
irritates me.

You have a reasonable solution, so why not chill for a bit, see if a
firmware release fixes it, in the fullness of time.

I did see some mention of the type of FAT causing problems, i.e. exFAT=bad.

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