What CM5 board for uconsole?

[fe8769]

I plan to change my useless A06 clockpi by an CM5 board (hopping it will work much better)

What kind of CM5 board is the best for clockpi ? Do I need storage on card or SD bootable card is enough ?

Thanks for answer

[Greg_E]

CM4 has better reliability right now, there seem to be power issues with the cm5. If it were me (and it was), I’d choose the cm4 8gb lite with wifi. This is what I’m running right now and it is stable and runs on my batteries for many hours (pink “3500mah” size 18650). No heat to comment on, but I’m not compiling the OS or transcoding video files, just works pretty good for what I’ve been doing.

As always, your mileage may vary.

[Nick_Stevens]

I bought the cm5 8gb version with sd boot. Seems to work very well. Had the cm4 before and was not happy at all. Cm5 support is very solid so cant wait to get my (second) uconsole for the cm5

[paul_hughes]

i have a cm5 with 16gb and it work real well

[fe8769]

Is CM4 adapter card is the right one ? Do I need CM5 with ou without on board storage ?

[white-round-square]

@fe8769

Is CM4 adapter card is the right one ?

yes, it’s only one and it works with CM4 and CM5

@fe8769

Do I need CM5 with ou without on board storage ?

that’s up to your preference. without storage you have an ease of use of sdcard and cheap 128gb+ storage.

with emmc you need extra board to flash OS, you have smaller size of main drive, but with CM5 you actually have speed bonus of emmc. (and you can’t use sdcard so you need to use an usb stick for additional storage)

Internal mass storage device

Hello to all hackers! I recently bought this: I received it today, mounted and tested it successfully. It works both with CM4 and CM5 (not tested with CM3). I can connect my ssd to each type C port, the uConsole sees it every time. The interest of this extension is to have an internal port directly connected to CM4 (and CM5). The idea : Connect the ssd to this internal port to start on it directly, or boot on the SD card but have the entire system on the ssd. Here is the experimental setu…

[Pizza247]

I’m on a CM5 16gb ram 64gb emmc and it’s nice and snappy. You’ll need the cm5 io board to flash the emmc.

[fe8769]

Sorry english isn’t my native language . Back to additional storage on CM5 board . I have raspi 5 board and I can run my prefered OS dragon_OS starting on a sd card . What would be the process with CM5 card ? Boot on a sd card ? install dragon_os on an Emmc storage ? what is the usage of cm5 IO board ? only flash the emmc on CM5 board ?

[white-round-square]

cm5 works the same way as cm4: you can have sd card or emmc, they exclude each other internally.

@fe8769

What would be the process with CM5 card ? Boot on a sd card ?

if you buy non-emmc version – yes, just boot from sd card

@fe8769

what is the usage of cm5 IO board ? only flash the emmc on CM5 board

yes. or to “mount emmc”

[CopperRelic]

Ordinarily you will want the WiFi version without storage (the “lite” version) so you can put in an sd card. In that case, you would go for the model with 8GB of memory (CM5108000) or the 16GB (CM5116000).