PCIe

RB700 Advance has one M.2 2242 key B socket for an SSD or any other device with PCIe 2.0 x1 interface support.

SSD

Western Digital PC SN520 SSD will be used to demonstrate example configuration. To check if the SSD is properly connected, use the commands:

lspci
00:00.0 PCI bridge: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM2711 PCIe Bridge (rev 20)
01:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Sandisk Corp PC SN520 NVMe SSD (rev 01)

lsblk | grep nvme
nvme0n1      259:0    0 119.2G  0 disk

Example configuration (one partition, ext4 filesystem):

parted /dev/nvme0n1 mklabel gpt

parted /dev/nvme0n1 mkpart primary ext4 0% 100%

parted /dev/nvme0n1 print
Model: WDC PC SN520 SDAPMUW-128G-1101 (nvme)
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 128GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number  Start   End    Size   File system  Name     Flags
 1      1049kB  128GB  128GB  fat32        primary

mkfs -t ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p1
mke2fs 1.46.2 (28-Feb-2021)
/dev/nvme0n1p1 contains a vfat file system
Proceed anyway? (y,N) y
Discarding device blocks: done
Creating filesystem with 31258368 4k blocks and 7815168 inodes
Filesystem UUID: 1e7a051d-4da1-4b3b-a44d-fb1a73ce4ed4
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
        32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
        4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872

Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (131072 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

blkid | grep nvme
/dev/nvme0n1p1: UUID="1e7a051d-4da1-4b3b-a44d-fb1a73ce4ed4" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="primary" PARTUUID="003c73f4-ac0e-4c27-a57e-8f363d9ebd75"

mkdir /mnt/ssd

mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/ssd

df -h | grep ssd
/dev/nvme0n1p1  117G   24K  111G   1% /mnt/ssd

RB700 M.2 PCIe

PCIe

SSD