Haudi. Does anyone know if Samsung 990 Pro with heatsink work with 5b+ and does the heatsink fit the metal box?
Samsung specifies that the depth is 8.2mm (without heatsink the depth is 2.3mm)
Also other recommendations for SSDs are welcome. I prefer to have some heatsink to the drive for longer life. The durability and long life is preferred over speed.
990 pro is overkill, you don’t need a PCIE4 drive on a PCIE3 device. And while it can probably be super fast, it won’t be due to rock5b+ bottlenecking it. Remember also that there are 2 lanes for every drive, not all 4 for 1, like on the 5b.
Thank you for your answer. I know it can be overkill. The cost of the drive is not so significant (price difference is small because i need relatively small drive).
Do you know how much there is space in the box? And do you have recommendations if there is really durable drive that is know to work with the board? My board is still in transit but I planning to order ssd and maybe heatsink before I get the board.
PS. I’m planning also to purchase Hailo 8 m.2 hopefully it will work with the board (ssd + hailo 8 in the m.2 slots)
If you want ultimate durability, get an Intel Optane M10. But it goes only up to 64 GB for about $60. Smaller ones are cheaper. It’s not very fast sequentially (unbeaten in random workloads and latency though).
The rest of your questions I don’t know the answer to, I use this one https://kksb-cases.com/products/kksb-rock-5b-case-with-heatsink-black-aluminum-enclosure for Rock 5b and an nvme drive fits…
The NPU on the RK3588 is faster than the Hailo-8L and almost as quick as the Hailo-8 for inferencing.
It also has the benefit of being able to use the system RAM for loading models, where the Hailo is restricted by its onboard SRAM so if a model is larger the compiler has to split the network into multiple parts to process separately and context switch between the parts with the host.
I will try the onboard NPU. I’m building video prosessing (real time face recognition from high resolution streams) and it could be that my case requires more power than the 6 TOPS that the onboard NPU offers. Originally I was planning Raspberry with Hailo 8 (26 TOPS), but the Pcie only 2.0 in Raspberry so I decided to acquire Rock 5b+.
Raspberry PI 5 can be forced to use PCIE 3.
yes, but I found only one dual nvme hat that supported pcie 3.0 and it was not available nor any box for the package. The Rock 5b+ specs are also way better for me, good that I found it.
Or you can connect an SSD via USB. Not trying to sell you a raspberry pi, I’m just exploring options
I have already rb 4 with usb ssd running my home automation. Have 5 raspis total.