Nvme for Bananapi R3-MINI

Can anyone, who has a working setup of stable 24.10.0 and a Bananapi R3-mini, recommend a 2230 nvme drive which is recognized in the device?

I have a Samsung P991, but it fails to be recognized/initialized. The behaviour varies slightly depending on whether it's a cold start (pci initialized, nvme fails initilization) or a reboot (pci initialization fails).

I have two R3 Mini, both with NVME drives. One device is running RC6, the other one is still on snapshot. I can upgrade the RC6 device a bit later today. Did it work for you before installing 24.10?

My drives are small and a bit older, I can send you the details once I'm at a computer a bit later today.

I've had the hardware for some time but didn't bother installing Openwrt until the release of 24.10, so this is my first attempt.

Yes, it would be helpful to know which drives you have working with the R3-mini and I'll try and get hold of one, even used, if necessary.

  • BPi R3 Mini #1 running OpenWrt 24.10.0-RC6: SK hynix BC501 NVMe Solid State Drive
  • BPi R3 Mini #2 running OpenWrt Snapshot r28085-6720c4ccba: Sandisk Corp IX SN530 NVMe SSD (DRAM-less) (rev 01)

This is the output of lspci, I don't remember exactly what drives I bought. I know that I got both used, the SK hynix is 128GB, the Sandisk is 256GB. At least one of the drives has a Microsoft sticker on it, it was probably pulled from a Surface.

The SK hynix is not under heavy load, but I run an LXC container with Debian + FreePBX off the Sandisk.

Thanks, that's helpful. I'll try and source one of those.

Similar to you, I just need some space to store containers and data.

Just if anyone else ends up on this post;
I purchased a used 256GB Sandisk/WD SN530 and it worked fine in the R3-MINI.

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