[SOLVED] How do I setup a NVME Hat to store music on RPI5?

[Rio1969]

Currently I have my music stored on a USB SSD. I recently bought a nvme Hat and a 2TB WD nvme drive. To test the Hat and drive I installed the Raspberry OS and it booted just fine.
I would like to use the nvme as internal storage for my music. How do I go about doing this? Is it as simple as formatting the drive to FAT32 on my PC, creating a folder and transferring the music to the nvme drive?

[TheOldPresbyope]

Currently I have my music stored on a USB SSD. I recently bought a nvme Hat and a 2TB WD nvme drive. To test the Hat and drive I installed the Raspberry OS and it booted just fine.
I would like to use the nvme as internal storage for my music. How do I go about doing this? Is it as simple as formatting the drive to FAT32 on my PC, creating a folder and transferring the music to the nvme drive?

You can now format and use the drive right from moOde 9.0.5. Go to m > Config > Library and have a look at the new Local NVMe drives section.

I have a test library on a Corsair 1 TB M.2 NVMe drive connected via a PineBoard PCIe-M.2 NVMe adapter. It's formatted ext4 (true confessions time: I formatted it with Raspberry Pi OS before Tim got the moOde formatting code implemented). Works fine.

Regards,
Kent

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[Tim Curtis]

If you boot from an SD Card then moode has built in support on the Library Config screen for formatting and mounting NVMe drives, and automatically sharing the drives on the network via NFS or Samba.

Its best to keep the boot drive and data storage drive separate because whenever you re-image the boot drive you won't wipe out your music files and then have to reload them all over again.

[Rio1969]

Thanks guys, I am using moOde 9.0.5 and booting from a SD card.

[sevoflurane]

Thanks guys, I am using moOde 9.0.5 and booting from a SD card.

I’m a complete novice to this, but have moOde 9.0.5 running from the SD card of my RPi 5 and a 2TB Crucial NVMe SSD attached (I am using an Argon Neo 5 case which uses the PCie connection to attach the SSD).

You can run everything from the SSD, but if you update moOde you’ll probably lose the music on the SSD. I have used the NVMe mounting feature in 9.0.5 to format the SSD which creates a shared folder for the music, which I can copy across from my PC. MoOde still boots from the SD card.

So far, so good; I have spent a good few hours over this weekend listening to music, either directly using a USB DAC attached to the RPi or streaming to a WiiM Mini.

[Tim Curtis]

Thanks for feedback on the NVMe feature.

I'd encourage updating to 9.0.6 to catch the NVMe feature fixes :-)

[sevoflurane]

Thanks for feedback on the NVMe feature.

I'd encourage updating to 9.0.6 to catch the NVMe feature fixes :-)

Just updated to 9.0.6 and all seems fine. Music still where I left it on the SSD! Thanks.