01-02-2020, 03:22 AM
(01-01-2020, 07:48 PM)bcnaz Wrote:(01-01-2020, 01:59 PM)weakbit Wrote: Hello,
can i bulid in a 512GByte SSD in the Pinebook Pro? What is the mac. size of a SSD?
Best Regards
weakbit
I have not seen any issues with the size of the added M.2/PCIe SSD's, However the PBP is a low powered laptop, And,
Many have had issues with their SSD's drawing too much power, Some did not boot at all, while some suffer fast battery draining.
There is a power limiting option available for 'some' of the SSD's, that is posted in the Wiki.
IF you are new to the forum, There are a few hurdles you may encounter when installing an PCIe SSD into your PBP.
1) The physical installation, there has been a few different approaches that have succeeded, but it would be a good idea to read those posts
for some insights.
2) The software end has also been a bit of a challenge as well.
IF you just want your SSD as a storage device, that is fairly simple.
IF you wish to boot from the SSD, that is a little more work, not just plug & play.
I have seen two different successful approaches,
one starts the boot sequence from the eMMC drive, then finish booting from the SSD.
The other is a bit more complex, setting it up to boot directly from the PCIe/SSD.
Most of that is in the Wiki, though looking through the forum could definitely help.
Too much to just list in a single post, we have been discussing this for a while.
It can be done, several forum members have done it.
I hope this helps, Not quite as simple as installing into your AMD/Intel computer.
Thank you for answering my questions.
I would like to install a M.2 SSD with 500GB thats it. I would like to boot from eMMC - well it is slow but after loading the Kernel into the RAM all executions will occur inside the RAM. Maybe it is a speed limit but i listen to the forum and read about speed shrinking etc. But the reason is that they don't use a 8Core etc. That is not so sad for me. Reagards weakbit