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X1004 V1.1 Dual Nvme shield

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X1004 V1.1 supports boot from SSD

X1004 V1.1 Dual Nvme shield

X1004 V1.1 Dual Nvme shield

X1004 V1.1 Dual Nvme shield

Overview

Enhance your Raspberry Pi 5 with effortless installation and lightning-fast PCIe storage speeds!

Introducing the X1004 NVMe dual SSD shield, designed to provide a seamless and high-speed storage solution for your Raspberry Pi 5. Its sleek and compact design enables easy attachment of two full-size M.2 2280 SSDs to your Raspberry Pi 5. With its PCIe 2.0 interface, you can experience data transfer rates of up to 5Gbps, allowing you to effortlessly transfer large amounts of data within seconds.

The X1004 is specifically designed to be placed on top of the Raspberry Pi 5, similar to a traditional HAT, and it provides a 40-pin header for easy access to the GPIO. With this NVMe shield, you can still use your favorite HATs alongside it. Additionally, it is fully compatible with the Raspberry Pi's official passive cooler, ensuring efficient heat dissipation. The inclusion of mounting holes and standoffs not only protects the solid-disk drives but also effectively dissipates heat for reliable performance. The built-in LED light indicates the status of reading or writing, eliminating any guesswork.

The X1004 is an ideal storage solution for creating a home media center or building a network-attached storage (NAS) system. It allows you to store and stream your own videos, music, and digital photos within your home or even remotely across the world.

Good News! The X1004 supports booting from NVME SSDs starting with bootloader version 2024-05-17 and later versions.

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Geekworm PCIe to NVME Sets:

After the release of the Raspberry Pi AI Kit, we tested four PIPs: X1001, X1004, X1011, and M901. X1001, X1004, and M901 all support the hailo-8 ai ​​accelerator, but X1011 does not.

It should be noted that X1004 uses ASMedia ASM1182e PCIe switch, and X1011 uses ASM1184e, they can't support PCIe Gen 3 speed, so even though we forced to enable PCIe Gen 3.0 setting in Raspberry Pi 5, it is limited by ASMedia ASM1182e PCIe switch, and speed is still PCIe Gen 2.0 5Gbps speed. when you use an hailo-8 ai accelerator, Raspberry Pi Fundation highly recommends using PCIe 3.0 to achieve best performance with your AI Kit.

Our tentative conclusions are as follows:

• If you need to use hailo-8 ai accelerator with high performance, it is recommended to use X1015/X1002/X1003/M901/ the official M.2 HAT+ etc. When choosing these PIP boards, you should focus on whether there is a conflict between the camera cable and the PIP board installation, and enable PCIe3.0 to use hailo-8 ai accelerator. At the same time, you need to prepare an SD card as the system disk.
• If you don't care about the high performance brought by PCIe 3.0, then you can consider using X1004, so that you can use any socket of X1004 to install NVME SSD as the system disk, and another socket to install hailo-8 ai accelerator, so as to have both.

Model	Compatible with	Position	NVMe M2 SSD Length Support	Matching Case	Matching Cooler	Support NVMe Boot	Support PCIe 3.0	Support Hailo-8 AI Accelerator
X1000	Raspberry Pi 5	Top	2230/2242	P579	Official Cooler / Argon THRML Cooler / H505/H501	Yes	-	Not tested
X1001	Raspberry Pi 5	Top	2230/2242/2260/2280	P579	Official Cooler / Argon THRML Cooler / H505/H501	Yes	-	Yes
X1002	Raspberry Pi 5	Bottom	2230/2242/2260/2280	P580 / P580-V2	Official Cooler / Argon THRML Cooler / H505/H501	Yes	-	NO
X1003	Raspberry Pi 5	Top	2230/2242	P579 / P425	Official Cooler / H501 Only	Yes	-	Not tested
X1004	Raspberry Pi 5	Top	Dual ssd: 2280	P579-V2	Official Cooler / Argon THRML Cooler / H505/H501	Yes (Requires EEPROM 2024/05/17 and later version)	NO	Yes
X1015	Raspberry Pi 5	Top	2230/2242/2260/2280	P579	Official Cooler / Argon THRML Cooler / H505/H501	Yes	-	Yes
X1005	Raspberry Pi 5	Bottom	Dual ssd: 2230/2242/2260/2280	P580-V2	Official Cooler / Argon THRML Cooler / H505/H501	Yes (Requires EEPROM 2024/05/17 and later version)	NO	Yes
X1011	Raspberry Pi 5	Bottom	4 ssds: 2230/2242/2260/2280	X1011-C1	Official Cooler / Argon THRML Cooler / H505/H501	Yes (eeprom 2024/05/17 and later version)	NO	NO
X1012	Raspberry Pi 5	Top	2230/2242/2260/2280	P579	Official Cooler / Argon THRML Cooler / H505/H501	Yes	-	Not tested
M901	Raspberry Pi 5	Top	2230/2242/2260/2280	P579	Official Cooler / Argon THRML Cooler / H505/H501	Yes	-	Yes
Q100	Raspberry Pi 5	Top	2242	P579	Official Cooler / Argon THRML Cooler / H505/H501	Yes	-	Not tested
Q200	Raspberry Pi 5	Top	Dual ssd: 2280	P579	Official Cooler / Argon THRML Cooler / H505/H501	NO	-	Not tested
M300	Raspberry Pi 5	Top	2230/2242	P579	Official Cooler / Argon THRML Cooler / H505/H501	Yes	-	Not tested
M400	Raspberry Pi 5	Top	2230/2242/2280	P579	Official Cooler/ Argon THRML Cooler / H505/H501	Yes	-	Not tested

Features

• Model: X1004
• Compatible With - Raspberry Pi 5B Only
• Supports a total of 8TB storage capacity (4TB+4TB) with M.2 NVMe solid-state drives
• Accommodates two full-size 2280 NVMe SSDs
• Provides speedy data transfer with PCIe 2.0 5Gbps.
• Fully compatible with the Raspberry Pi official active cooler
• LED indicators in blue display power and drive status
• Features an integrated high-performance PCIe packet switch
• Equipped with two high-efficiency DC/DC step-down converters, delivering a maximum of 3.5A+3.5A to power your SSDs
• Designed to be attached on top, allowing stacking with other HATs
• Powered via the 40-pin GPIO header & PCIe FFC
• Compatible with the HAT+ STANDBY power state, automatically turning off when the Pi 5 shuts down.
• Since X1004 is using ASMedia ASM1182e PCIe switch, it can't support PCIe Gen 3 speed, so even though we forced to turn on PCIe Gen 3.0 setting in Raspberry Pi 5, it is limited by ASMedia ASM1182e PCIe switch. speed is still PCIe Gen 2.0 speed.
• X1004 also supports hailo-8 ai accelerator and can also support booting from another SSD. (Note: Hailo-8 ai and ssd share the bandwidth of PCIe 2.0. Due to the limitation of ASMedia ASM1182e PCIe switch, X1004 do not support PCIe 3.0.)

Technical Specification

Power supply	5Vdc +/-5% power via FFC & 40-pin header, converted to 3.3V max 3.5A+3.5A to power the SSDs
Ports & Connectors	PCIe connector - 16-pin pitch0.5mm SSD connector - M.2 KEY-M 67P
PCIe cable length	30mm
PCB Size	87mm x 57mm

Important Notes

• Compatible with M.2 NVMe SSDs only
• Not compatible with M.2 SATA SSDs, M.2 PCIe AHCI SSDs, or other M.2 non-NVMe devices
• Older NVMe drives with less efficient flash media may not perform as well as newer drives
• New NVMe SSDs are not partitioned and will need to be both partitioned and formatted when first connected to the Raspberry Pi before they will be accessed in the Explorer.

Matching Case

Please refer to P579-V2

Packing List

• 1 x X1004 Shield
• 4x M2.5x17mm F/F Spacers
• 9x M2.5x5mm Screws
• 1x Riser Board
• 2x 30mm length FFC cable(one as backup)

User Manual

• X1004 hardware description: X1004 Hardware
• How to make X1004 work: NVMe SSD boot with the Raspberry Pi 5
• Raspberry pi 5 pcie connector pin out

Assembly Instructions

Installation Video: https://youtu.be/IuklNh_pO0s

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Anonymous user #7

one month ago

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I have a x1004 with a brand new rpi. The SSD was found once according to the following process, but after the SD card was re-burned due to other problems, the SSD could not be found again using the same process. My SSD is: KIOXIA G2 1TB 1. sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y 2. sudo rpi-eeprom-update 3. update bootloader to latest 4. sudo rpi-eeprom-update -a 5. Add to /boot/firmware/config.txt ``` dtparam=pciex1 dtparam=nvme ``` 6. Add to rpi-eeprom-config ``` PCIE_PROBE=1 PSU_MAX_CURRENT=5000 ```

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The SSD was reformatted to FAT32, ext4, and empty space, but it still cannot be found again.

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Lisa

one month ago

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Hi,Please contact us by email: info@geekworm.com (and let us known your order number); please send installation pictures and operation screenshots.thanks.

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Anonymous user #6

2 months ago

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I can confirm the X1004 worked with nvme WD_BLACK 2TB SN850X. Also worth noting, I was using a USB C extension cable. I had to remove it to get sufficient power or the RPI would turn off after a few seconds.

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Anonymous user #4

5 months ago

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how can i get a Firmware Update to the last Version 2024/05/17 version

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Lisa

5 months ago

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Hello，please refer toHow to update eeprom firmware

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Anonymous user #3

7 months ago

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Hi. The description says "PCIe 2.0 interface" but the features list says "Provides speedy data transfer with PCIe 2.0 5Gbps / PCIe 3.0 8Gbps". Does it support Gen 3 speeds or not?

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Anonymous user #5

5 months ago

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I tested it. Not working with Gen3 speeds. dissapointing

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Harry

5 months ago

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Since X1004 is using ASMedia ASM1182e PCIe switch, it can't support PCIe Gen 3 speed, so even though we forced to turn on PCIe Gen 3.0 setting in Raspberry Pi 5, it is limited by ASMedia ASM1182e PCIe switch. speed is still PCIe Gen 2.0 speed.

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Harry

5 months ago

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And I updated the wiki. Thanks.

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Harry

5 months ago

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Please don't be disappointed, the Raspberry Pi Foundation is not responsible for PCIe 3.0 either!

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Anonymous user #2

8 months ago

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When will the case be out?

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Lisa

8 months ago

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Hi,We will be upgrading P579 Case to support X1004, the new version is in production. It will come soon. Please stay tuned for updates to our wiki.Thank you.

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Anonymous user #1

8 months ago

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Will the Coral M2 card run on this current firmware?

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Lisa

8 months ago

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Hi,We have not tested Coral M.2 SSD; but please confirm 2 things: ① The SSD interface must be NVMe M.2 Key-M or Key-B&M; ②We recommend avoiding the NVMe SSD drives which is equipped with a Phison controller due to their proven incompatibility. You can run "lspci" command to check the controller brand of the SSD.

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