Compatiable NVME drives with Pimoroni base

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Is there a list of compatible NVME drives to use with the Pimoroni base or things to look for such as a controller chip on the NVME drive ?

                                        Thanks

Found the list sorry :(

AData Legend 700
AData Legend 800
AData XPG SX8200 Pro
Axe Memory Generic Drive
Crucial P2 M.2
Crucial P3 M.2
Crucial P3 Plus M.2
Inland PCIe NVMe SSD
Kingston KC3000
Kioxia Exceria NVMe SSD
Kioxia Exceria G2 NVMe SSD
Lexar NM620
Lexar NM710
Netac NV2000 NVMe SSD
Netac NV3000 NVMe SSD
Origin Inception TLC830 Pro NVMe
Sabrent Rocket 4.0
Sabrent Rocket Nano
Samsung 980
Samsung 980 Pro (500GB/1TB)
Team MP33
Western Digital Black SN750 SE (Phison Controller

Thanks anyway

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I’ve been using a Crucial P3 500GB M.2 NVMe, (sorry Pimoroni) granted not with a Pimoroni NVMe base.

But an Argon ONE V3, without any issues at all, very stable with good consistent performance, YMMV.

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I bought the Lexar NM710 when it was on a discount at the same time as I got the nvme base (basic), you can boot from it, it works nicely, but after a random amount of time (usually a few days), it’s like the Lexar goes into a sleep mode and can’t be waken up unless you reboot.
I switched it to a Samsung MZVPV512HDGL-000H1 (NVMe SSD Controller SM951/PM951) and it has been working flawless. In both cases used with dtparam=pciex1_gen=3

At the moment I’m not sure what to do with the Lexar, most likely it will just be a USB storage that njot ment to be connected for a long time.

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Kingston KC3000 2TB SSD needs a quirk to prevent it from going to ps3/ps4 sleep modes, where it at least with current Home Assistant kernel (Linux homeassistant 6.12.47-haos-rasp) - crashes the system. Sounds the same as @trizt is reporting with Lexar.

You need to append this to end of boot/cmdline.txt
nvme_core.default_ps_max_latency_us=0

This seems to fix the issue.

Listed sleep modes are:
ps0 : mp:8.80W operational enlat:0 exlat:0 rrt:0 rrl:0
rwt:0 rwl:0 idle_power:- active_power:-
ps1 : mp:7.10W operational enlat:0 exlat:0 rrt:1 rrl:1
rwt:1 rwl:1 idle_power:- active_power:-
ps2 : mp:5.20W operational enlat:0 exlat:0 rrt:2 rrl:2
rwt:2 rwl:2 idle_power:- active_power:-
ps3 : mp:0.0620W non-operational enlat:2500 exlat:7500 rrt:3 rrl:3
rwt:3 rwl:3 idle_power:- active_power:-
ps4 : mp:0.0620W non-operational enlat:2500 exlat:7500 rrt:4 rrl:4
rwt:4 rwl:4 idle_power:- active_power:-