[HN Gopher] Raspberry Pi 5 Gets a MicroSD Express Hat
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       Raspberry Pi 5 Gets a MicroSD Express Hat
        
       Author : geerlingguy
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2025-07-28 03:49 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | zerof1l wrote:
       | I would avoid using SD cards and go for something else like M.2
       | or NVMe for storage. SD cards tend to be on the lesser side in
       | terms of performance, failure rate, and silicon quality in
       | general.
        
         | piperswe wrote:
         | Does that apply to MicroSD Express?
        
           | privatelypublic wrote:
           | Yes. The,re better, but thermals are killer
        
           | out_of_protocol wrote:
           | MicroSD Express is basically NVMe, protocol-wise (which is
           | almost directly PCIe), with extra bells like old microSD
           | support, packed into very small package with worse thermals
           | and for extra price. Don't see a reason to use it if you can
           | stick to M.2 NVMe
        
       | JdeBP wrote:
       | Whilst the headlined article is interesting, it's a case of the
       | new and shiny distracting from regressions in what already
       | exists.
       | 
       | The Raspberry Pi 5 is lacking in some fairly basic support that
       | the Pi 4 has. There's no TianoCore, no NetBSD, no FreeBSD, no
       | OpenBSD, no OmniOS(CE) ... in fact nothing at all apart from
       | Raspberry Pi OS. A couple of of the operating systems seem to
       | point the finger at poorly documented hardware changes that the
       | manufacturer has been no help with.
       | 
       | * https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-platforms/tree/master/Plat...
       | 
       | * https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/raspberry_pi/#index6h2
       | 
       | * https://www.freebsd.org/where/#download
       | 
       | * https://www.openbsd.org/arm64.html
       | 
       | * https://downloads.omnios.org/media/braich/
       | 
       | So the question that comes to my mind is whether this is yet
       | further new and different Raspberry Pi 5 hardware that comes with
       | no software or prospect of software.
        
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