Raspi 5 with NVME unreliable?

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For future solutions i’m trying to setup a Raspi5@4GB with NVME hat, yes “trying, aka dry run” because the machine always freeze and comes up with “erofs” “fs readahead failure” at the ha console.

What have i tried without success.

  • Geekworm X1001
  • Freenove SSDP
  • GeekPi N04

Drives

  • Patriot P320 128GB
  • Kioxia BG4 64GB
  • Netac NV2000 256GB

Raspi Power Supply used
Original 27W Model

Hint: For every round of trial the SSD are written from scratch with fresh HA17 image.
None of them survives more than 12 hours until filesystem errors with freezes appear. The machine get stuck, no remote access, fs errors on ha console

Question one: Does HA have a fsck at boot like normal desktop distributions?
Question two: Anybody out there with a a reliable working PI5 / NVME?

My production HA is on a RPi4/Argon SSD case.

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I’m running HA on a rpi5 with nvme ssd in an Argon neo 5 case for 2 years now without any issues.

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Your supply is running a Hat, you need a higher wattage supply now. That is my first guess.

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My own RpI5 + NVME + 27W power supply runs without issues.

But see this thread:
Stability problems NVMe on RPI 5 - Installation / Home Assistant OS - Home Assistant Community
It appears that certain adapters are causing trouble.

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No problems with:

  • Pi5 - 4GB
  • official 27W psu
  • official M.2 HAT+ Compact
  • official Raspberry Pi SSD (256GB NVMe)
  • official Raspberry Pi Case (red/white with fan)
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Now i have a 45W PD power supply, removed the cover and the result is crashing with filesystem errors. The GeekPi N04 has a GPIO power help, but seems not help in my situation.

So i read the linked thread and yes exact these are the problems here. Incompatibiolity and lot’s of filesystem errors that most time deny bootup. No reliable work for the machine. My last resort is to try out the Argon Neo case now. Maybe it’s the magic thing, but i will let it dry run for several days until to prove stability.

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That’s what I have :slight_smile:

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also be careful with the SSD choice, not all are 100% playing nice with the rpi5.
I have a 256GB Integral M.2 SSD PCIe NVMe and is working 100% in my setup.
I also use the official 27W psu.

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Did install the Argon Neo 5 with a Netac NV2000. Now it’s dry running on hassio, put Music Assistant to give heavy load. 6 Hours without filesystem problem, this time it have to prove it’s stability for days until i replace my Pi4.

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18 Days later…

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Shredded again, okay the machine IS unreliable too.

Now what’s really bad is the backup. I restored the “last night” backup full to my old RPi4 machine. But lots over lots of changes are missing, i think the massive changes last months in hassio are not part of the backup. No labels, no sorting, no updated automations i did on the new machine. That’s the real bummer for me.