Raspberry Pi 5, Neo 5 nvme, WD black and Ubuntu

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The title basically says it all. I’ve been fighting with my new Neo 5 nvme case (looks cool, excellent construction) all day. What I’m dealing with:

Raspberry pi 5
WD Black 850X (2tb)
Argon Neo 5 nvme case

Trying to install Ubuntu to the SSD just doesn’t work. I’ve gone around and around and finally decided to try and install PiOS and following the scripts in the manual but it ended up with a pcie error with some weird command prompt. Likewise Ubuntu would just go into the loading screen for like 10 minutes and end with another weird command prompt.

My guess is the drive is not compatible with the neo 5.

Any help or advice would be appreciated.

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If you have an NVME enclosure or dock and another computer. Initialize the WD drive and format it . Then use the Raspberry PI imager to load the PI Unbuntu image on the NVME. Run all the scripts in the Argon instructions from Raspbian on the SD Card. Install the NVME drive and it should work. You can remove the SD Card first if you would like, but it worked for me with a WD Blue without doing that.

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I had issues and then got it setup.

I can help on Discord.

@ ai_armageddon