I used the imager app on my desktop machine to setup a thumb drive, booted from the thumb drive and used the imager app on my ssd, then booted from the ssd only to find it’s unstable. The Pi works fine using the thumb drive. The drive is listed in the compatibility list. Does the 1TB model draw too much power? Do I need to use the other cable provided with the case?
I was also curious, is the neo 5’s power light supposed to blink?
The power light is actually from the Raspberry Pi, if it’s blinking that indicates it’s not getting enough power (see: The Red and Green Lights on the Raspberry Pi - Pi My Life Up)
The Pi 5 requires a 5V, 5A Power supply.
I suspect if you look in dmesg you’ll see warnings about your power supply and thus the likely cause of instability.
It’s the green light blinking, I think it’s only doing it when its accessing the SD card. Red light is solid.
Correct the Green LED indicates activity on the SD card. The RED led shouldn’t be on at all in normal use, except when shutdown. There can be scenarios where the lights provide specific blink codes, e.g. https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=362583
If your Pi is using the NMVe storage it shouldn’t be using the mmc and will be a solid green light and shouldn’t be flashing as that’s activity on the mmc.
If it’s not using the NVMe, then you’ll want to ensure you’re running the latest firmware on your pi and have used raspi-config to configure the boot order. A blog post I wrote on a similar topic may help: https://www.martinrowan.co.uk/2024/02/installing-home-assistant-on-raspberry-pi-5-nvme-storage/
I was unable to get the SSD to run stable with raspbian on it, so I got an SD card and am using the SSD purely as storage. It seems to work okay in that setup.
Can your clarify what you mean by unstable? What errors were/are you getting in smash? Or how did the instability manifest?
It wouldn’t complete updates, it would stall up… sometimes it wouldn’t even fully boot.
I was hoping to get it to boot and install the scripts you’re supposed to run for the neo 5 nvme case but I never got that far.