SSD for PBP

[bcnaz]

Many users will want install a larger and faster drive.  So I'm starting this thread for questions and answers, and will update the information in this first post.

So far, there are at least five main issues:

1) The physical specifications.  They were posted earlier.  Sorry, I couldn't find the post.

2) Mounting hardware and installation.

3) Power consumption.  

"Around 2.5W reserved for NVMe drive. Please don't use the power hungry type SSD which can creates heat and power consumption issue."

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?...8#pid47438

"the 3.3V regulator which is responsible for supplying the NVMe adapter can handle up to 8.25W momentarily, and isn't put under significant load by much else in the system"

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?...5#pid48355
 
4) Heat. This is related to power consumption. It shouldn't make the PBP too uncomfortable to use, or make the drive or other components exceed their operating temperature.  Finding suitable drives will likely be the result of trial and error.  Fortunately, external enclosures are available, so buying a drive that runs too hot in the PBP won't be a complete loss. 
 
5) Starting up from the SSD as the system drive.

(Since I already placed my PBP order, I'm guessing I'm in the first 100, so I'm willing to do some testing on this issue.  I plan on buying two different 256 GB, then using one as a USB back-up drive.  Larger drives consume more power and produce more heat, but so far it looks like some 2TB drives should work

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             I  Wonder if someone is working on a simple way to make the M.2 NVMe PCIe  the boot drive  ?
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