The official Raspberry Pi SSD unlocks outstanding performance for I/O intensive applications on Raspberry Pi 5 and other devices, including super-fast startup when booting from SSD.

It is a reliable, responsive, and high-performance PCIe Gen 3-compliant SSD capable of fast data transfer, available with 256GB or 512GB capacity.

Requires a Raspberry Pi 5-compatible M.2 adapter, such as the Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+, NVMe Base or NVMe Base Duo (sold separately).

Specification

SSD is capable of the following performance:

Density	IOPS (4KB random read)	IOPS (4KB random write)
256GB	40k	70k
512GB	50k	90k

Resources

• Product brief
  
• Launch blog post