Jeff Gerling affirms that the Compute Module 5 has Gen 3 PCIe, from his testing, as in 01:45 in :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4blR5Ua3S0
And yet, the CM5 data sheet mentions only Gen2. In practical terms, which 2TB SSD for a 16GB / 64GB CM5 with WIFi (eg. the latest in production) that's combined with a Raspberry Pi IO board, should be used ? A Gen2 NVMe SSD or a Gen 3 ? I'm looking at a Western Digital Black NVMe SSD and they exist in both Gen2 and Gen3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4blR5Ua3S0
And yet, the CM5 data sheet mentions only Gen2. In practical terms, which 2TB SSD for a 16GB / 64GB CM5 with WIFi (eg. the latest in production) that's combined with a Raspberry Pi IO board, should be used ? A Gen2 NVMe SSD or a Gen 3 ? I'm looking at a Western Digital Black NVMe SSD and they exist in both Gen2 and Gen3.
Statistics: Posted by mevla — Sun Jul 06, 2025 10:26 am