October 29, 2025Oct 29 Hello, I'm using Ubuntu noble lts with kernel 6.1 it appears. I've enabled the orangepi-5-sata overlay. In the photos I have showed how I've connected it. When plugging in the pi with my official 5v 4a usbc charger, the adapter lights up for awhile. I'm not sure if it needs to stay on. I then check fdisk -l and nothing new appears. This drive works if I put the sata to usb connector on it and plug it in - so it's not the drive.
October 29, 2025Oct 29 26 minutes ago, nom said: orangepi-5-sata overlay I think this is wrong. The overlay needs to enabled if there is an m2 sata ssd connected. However in this case we connect a pcie device which connects to a chip that multiplexes the sata devices. tl;dr: try disabling this overlay
October 30, 2025Oct 30 Author Thank you @Werner it just worked perfectly once disabled. That'll teach me to enable things. Beyond lower CPU usage compared to a USB to SATA adapter, I have some performance benchmarks. // write dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1M count=3000 oflag=direct 3145728000 bytes (3.1 GB, 2.9 GiB) copied, 11.382 s, 276 MB/s (usb) 3145728000 bytes (3.1 GB, 2.9 GiB) copied, 9.74696 s, 323 MB/s (sata) // read dd if=testfile of=/dev/null bs=1M iflag=direct 3145728000 bytes (3.1 GB, 2.9 GiB) copied, 10.8119 s, 291 MB/s (usb) 3145728000 bytes (3.1 GB, 2.9 GiB) copied, 9.09585 s, 346 MB/s (sata) And some Jellyfin CPU vs Hardware accelerated transcoding usage: Edited October 30, 2025Oct 30 by nom
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