Raspberry Pi 5 randomly reboots when powering an SSD over USB

I’m using a Raspberry Pi 5 with an NVMe SSD connected through a USB 3 enclosure. The Pi works normally when the SSD is disconnected, but occasionally reboots when the SSD is under sustained read/write load.I purchased this one in Italy, so it might function differently.

The power supply is rated at 27W, and the issue seems more likely to happen when the CPU is also under load. Has anyone seen this with the Raspberry Pi 5, and would using a higher-rated USB-C supply or a powered USB hub be the recommended solution?

Thank you

best,
Salvatore B.
florist Italy
LTC

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0 veluv01 9 hours ago

I'm using the M.2 HAT+ to access the NVMe SSD (uses around 5W on R/W, running SLM's) , it works without any problem. If the power supply you're using doesn't have the 5V 5A profile, it's also a cause of the issue you're facing.
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0 cstanton 8 hours ago in reply to veluv01

veluv01 said:
If the power supply you're using doesn't have the 5V 5A profile,

Yes, thank you. This's the particular USB-PD profile that the Pi 5 is fussy about.
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0 Andrew J 6 hours ago in reply to cstanton

I have the official PI5 supply. Not at home for a few days so out of interest, is that good enough?
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0 Andrew J 6 hours ago in reply to cstanton

I have the official PI5 supply. Not at home for a few days so out of interest, is that good enough?
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0 cstanton 6 hours ago in reply to Andrew J

The official Pi 5 supply is exactly the correct one to use with the required USB-PD profile. It should be enough.
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0 Andrew J 6 hours ago in reply to cstanton

Thanks. Must be some other incompatibility then; I just couldn’t get to the bottom of it and because I was using it for HA, which I got thoroughly #}%&£@ off with, I gave up on it. At least until I find another project suitable for the PI.
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0 cstanton 6 hours ago in reply to Andrew J

The problem might be with the enclosure, sometimes they do not expect higher power pull which has changed depending on what PCIe standard they expect/support.
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0 chekov 5 hours ago in reply to cstanton

Not sure if this will help get to the root of this particular problem, but they do discuss some methods to measure power consumption here:

forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php
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0 veluv01 4 hours ago in reply to cstanton
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0 Andrew J 3 hours ago in reply to veluv01

When I get home I’ll dig it out. I formatted it with HAOS but presumably the underlying config is common.
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0 colporteur 1 hour ago in reply to cstanton

I'm not that confident in all PI5 supplies being the same. The 5A sucker is much larger and weightier than the typical Pi power supply. I have a variety of PS kicking around and the size I noticed.

I'm not saying you are wrong but PS for Pi's has always been contentious issue for me.
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