Installing LibreElec on SSD

    Hi everyone,

    I have recently bought my first Raspberry (Pi5), because I need a home-made kind-of-NAS. So LibreElec seem to be the best choice.

    I just know a few things aout Raspberry and LibreElec. I installed LibrElec on the SD card, and it works perfectly well.
    What if I install LibreElec on the SSD Nvme ? Is it worth it? Will LibreElec gain in speed significantly? (currently all my media files are stored on this Nvme SSD).

    Or do you think it's useless, and that I'd better keep LibreElec on the SD card ?

    Thank you for your advices !

    • Best Answer

    I recently swapped an RPi5 from SD card to an NVME drive to see what the fuss was about (as I had a spare drive, and there are lots of cheap HATs). It boots a little faster, and it scrolls in large menus a little faster due to the better small file I/O performance, but I'd put heavy emphasis on "little" faster. It is a marginal gain and not some huge leap forwards. TLDR: Yes it's better. No you're not missing out if you stick with an SD card.

    NB: LE is rather lacking in proper NAS features, so as long as you regard it as "something that shares files" and not "something that protects your data" (esp. if running from an SD card) .. you won't be disappointed.

    Thank you for your feedback !


    It seems I'd better keep my installation as it is (LE on SD, storage on SSD). Just in case I have to reinstall the OS (and disk partitioning has sometimes caused me funny problems...)


    NB : Yes, I regard LE as "something to share files". I just need a server on wich are all my videos, so that other PC in the house can watch them from any room, in the same time. I loose all datas, there is no problem since I have a backup on another disk.