X1004
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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.
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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