The Raspberry Pi NVMe SSD Kit is designed to enable the use of a 256 GB NVMe solid-state drive with the Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+ on Raspberry Pi 5. It provides a practical method for expanding local storage capacity or booting the operating system directly from an SSD instead of a microSD card. The included NVMe SSD is approved for Raspberry Pi 5 and operates over a single-lane PCIe 2.0 interface. It delivers up to 40K IOPS for 4 KB random read and up to 70K IOPS for 4 KB random write operations. The SSD is supplied blank and requires an external interface for operating system installation prior to boot use.