Now, the Raspberry Pi 5 has a lovely new PCIe port right on board, and [Jeff Geerling] has gone right ahead and slammed in an NVMe SSD as a boot drive.

An external SSD (or even an internal drive hooked up to an enclosure, for that matter) connected to a USB 3.0 port is my preferred boot drive, but if you’re using the Raspberry Pi 5, you also ...

1. What to Do if Your Raspberry Pi 5 Won't Boot As the fifth full generation of Raspberry Pi boards, the Pi 5 is a little more reliable than earlier models.