Will purchasing an NVMe SSD noticably improve performance

[tophneal]

Maybe not. Currently it wouldn't be a bootable drive. It would appear as a secondary drive.


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But surely you could just flash the image to the NVMe drive, and change "root=/dev/mmcblk1p2" in /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf to "root=/dev/nvme0n1p2"? Then, everything would be running off the NVMe drive

Ben

Potentially. It was discussed briefly in another thread. I believe the final sentiment of the thread was "we won't truly know until someone tries."

I have put a NVMe SSD in my PBP. 
Toshiba OCZ RC100, 240 GB, m.2 2242: 42mm long. So I could take 3 cm off of the adapter.
All is working very well, no problem with the touchpad.
After starting up the NVMe SSD was mounted and known as /dev/nvme0n1. (Gparted)

I would like to give it a try.
Supply me with detailed instructions s'il vous plaît.

 Here's what I found when searching it out: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=4971

Not sure if the uboot updates since then allow for booting from NVMe yet, though.