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Honestly, given the improvement of every other capability in the boards over the years, it’s really mad we don’t have an m.2 slot as an option, even if they ended up having to create a slightly more expensive SKU (which they seem to have no issues with given the memory options for the Pi4)

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cooopsspace@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The single least reliable part of a raspberry pi is the storage. Always has been.

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- ngons@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The professor really is what sets this device apart from competition
  
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  - Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    The professor...
    
    Are we talking Gilligan's Island or Futurama?
    
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    ngons@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Not sure, but i couldn’t help myself :D
    
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    Droechai@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Professor Calculus from Tintin
    
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thehatfox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Looking at photos of the Pi5 board, the PCIe pins are a separate ribbon connector. I am guessing the M2 hat will just use the GPIO pins for power and hardware detection, and pass the others through.

I agree it would be have been useful to have an M2 slot (or maybe eMMC connector) integrated indirectly to the board. Other similar SBCs have done so. Perhaps the Pi designers were concerned about board space or thermal considerations. I imagine they want to keep the form factor as similar as possible each version, so they maybe can’t make drastic changes to the board layout.

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mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Likely an issue with the pci express lane not being able to handle nvme and everything else.

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- 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I thought that might be the case too, but the launch page has a line that suggests an M.2 HAT will use the new PCI-E interface, so it does make you wonder why they couldn’t include the connector on the board. Might just be me, but I feel like people have been asking for this since they gave up asking for a SATA connector
  
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