Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Radxa's Taco is back! Does it work with the CM5? Can SATA SSDs make a comeback?

I tested a new Taco (the latest v1.4 edition) with a CM4 and CM5 today.

- Radxa Taco: radxa.com/products/io-board/taco
- Pi PCI Express Database entry: pipci.jeffgeerling.com/boards_cm/radxa-taco.html
- Discuss the Taco in the GitHub issue: github.com/geerlingguy/raspberry-pi-pcie-devices/issues/268

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Contents:

00:00 - What's a Taco?
00:43 - Hardware overview
02:24 - Plugging in drives and modules
05:05 - First boot attempt
06:38 - Second boot attempt
07:18 - We're in
09:41 - Disk benchmarking
11:32 - Second try for CM5
12:18 - SATA's last stand?