NVMe is in the title of the thread, but actually if you are not running
NVMe speeds (2GB/s and such), but only SATAIII or even USB speeds then it
definitely won't be hot. Actually I wouldn't even call your stick NVMe,
it's an SSD drive.

On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 3:50 PM Curt Lundgren <[email protected]> wrote:

> My drive is in a thin extruded aluminum case and is seldom more than just
> a bit warm to the touch.  I'm not doing anything on this computer that is
> particularly filesystem-intensive.  It's been plugged directly into the Pi
> and has had uptimes of three days.  I've never seen the little 'lightning'
> icon come on that might indicate a sag in power.  The Pi is powered by a 3
> amp USB C power supply, and that seems to be handling the load quite well.
> The highest transfer speed I've seen on reads is about 275 MB/sec., far
> below the actual capability of the NVMe stick itself.
>
> On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 4:24 PM Csaba Toth <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Especially high speed NVMe SSD drives can dissipate a lot of heat and
>> that's just part of the energy they consume. Modern laptop designs have
>> heat conducting foams lay on top of the chips of the NVMe and spread that
>> heat to a larger area for dissipation. I can easily imagine the Pi may not
>> handle that well.
>>
>> On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 2:32 PM Howard White <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Curt,
>>>
>>> The video I listed indicates that some NVMe drives draw more power than
>>> the Pi hardware may provide.
>>>
>>> What I have looked at but not yet endeavored is booting / file serving
>>> the Pi via PXE and NFS.  I've printed some web searches out but haven't
>>> gotten past that point.
>>>
>>> A potential topic for a meeting some time?
>>>
>>> Howard
>>>
>>> On 5/15/21 12:33 PM, Curt Lundgren wrote:
>>> > Thanks Howard, I have been following Jeff Geerling's great videos, and
>>> > the Mirko board is certainly packed with features.  The part I'm
>>> having
>>> > trouble with is why the Pi boots and appears to run quite normally,
>>> for
>>> > 10 - 20 minutes, then just stops accessing the NVMe drive and hangs.
>>> If
>>> > I'm streaming music, it continues to stream - but nothing else works.
>>> I
>>> > don't think it's a thermal issue, because if I unplug power and plug
>>> it
>>> > right back in, the Pi boots right up again.
>>> >
>>> > Silly me for thinking this would be something that 'just works…'
>>> >
>>> > On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 10:13 AM Howard White <[email protected]
>>> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >     Curt,
>>> >
>>> >     Sorry I'm slow to respond.  I also struggle with RPi and MicroSD
>>> media.
>>> >        Here is a YouTube with some info about NVMe kit:
>>> >
>>> >     <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZMF1n75Km0
>>> >     <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZMF1n75Km0>>
>>> >
>>> >     Howard
>>> >
>>> >     On 5/10/21 4:38 PM, Curt Lundgren wrote:
>>> >      > I've set up a Pi 4 computer with 8 GB of RAM and a pair of 1080P
>>> >      > displays as a second place to sit.  No Email, no chats of any
>>> kind,
>>> >      > rather peaceful, actually.  It's running 64-bit Ubuntu, and
>>> >     except for
>>> >      > an occasional non-fatal complaint from one application or
>>> >     another, it
>>> >      > runs rather well.
>>> >      >
>>> >      > It's booting from a 32 GB high-endurance micro SD.  The problem
>>> I've
>>> >      > observed with RPi computers in the past is that they destroy
>>> >     their boot
>>> >      > media.  Most, if not all, micro SD cards do not have wear
>>> >     leveling, and
>>> >      > so the constant logging and other activity eventually 'wears a
>>> >     hole' in
>>> >      > the media and it fails.  This didn't keep my original
>>> single-core
>>> >     700
>>> >      > MHz Pi from setting a personal runtime record of 1503 days, but
>>> >     it would
>>> >      > not boot after power was restored.  Added a new high-endurance
>>> >     micro SD
>>> >      > card to it, and it came right back up.
>>> >      >
>>> >      > Back in the Watkins days we were using Pi3 computers for door
>>> access
>>> >      > control.  Everything was rock-solid reliable - until the boot
>>> media
>>> >      > would fail.  That's when I hit on the idea of using the
>>> >     high-endurance
>>> >      > cards.  I've never had one of those fail, knock on wood.
>>> >      >
>>> >      > I still like the idea of wear leveling, so I bought a 500 GB
>>> NVMe
>>> >     drive
>>> >      > and a USB 3+ enclosure.  It's bloody fast when connected to a
>>> Mac
>>> >      > laptop, over 900 MB/sec both read and write.  I copied the
>>> Ubuntu
>>> >     boot
>>> >      > image onto it and plugged it into the PI4.  I did have to flash
>>> >     the Pi
>>> >      > firmware so it will boot either from an SD card or external USB
>>> >     media.
>>> >      > The Pi boots up and runs beautifully - for 10 to 20 minutes,
>>> then it
>>> >      > just hangs.  Power cycle and it's good for another 10 - 20
>>> minutes.
>>> >      >
>>> >      > Is it a power issue?  I have a spare USB 3.0 powered hub, so I
>>> >     plugged
>>> >      > the new drive into the hub and the hub into the Pi.  It looks
>>> silly,
>>> >      > with the hub being substantially larger than the computer, but
>>> it
>>> >     boots
>>> >      > up, runs beautifully for 10 - 20 minutes - and hangs.  I don't
>>> >     think the
>>> >      > trouble can be blamed on power supply issues, and I'm stumped as
>>> >     to what
>>> >      > else might be going on.  I'm back on the high-endurance micro SD
>>> >     card,
>>> >      > but would like very much to have the added capacity and wear
>>> >     leveling
>>> >      > the SSD offers.
>>> >      >
>>> >      > Speed through the hub was dismal at about 32 MB/sec., pretty
>>> much
>>> >     USB
>>> >      > 2.0 performance, but that would have been OK if the Pi would run
>>> >     and not
>>> >      > lock up.
>>> >      >
>>> >      > Does anyone have any thoughts as to what might be going on here?
>>> >      >
>>> >      > Thanks
>>> >      > Curt Lundgren
>>> >      >
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