Tim,

Here is a Tom's Hardware report on several "benchmarks" between a 4GB and 8GB Rpi 5

https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-5-4gb-versus-8gb

Their overall conclusion was that for most uses the RPi 5 with 4GB will be fine.   Probably if you keep 100 tabs open on your browser YMMV.

I have rendered and received the PCIe daughter card that allows you to attach a 1TB nVMe M.2 memory card, supposedly with 5000MB/sec read and write (although I do not expect that I will get that through the PCIe on the Pi 5.   I have to have some time to put everything together, but I should be doing that in the next couple of weeks.  You can probably find others who have done it already with some decent search queries on the Internet.  Here is one I found from Tom's Hardware:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXWu4SUsaY8

I will tell you that when I switched from a SATA 3 SSD to a nVMe M.2 card on my laptop the change was "breathtaking" on I/O style of loads.   I will never go back.

md

On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 1:19 PM Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
They say estimated delivery of Jan 9th - Jan 11th.. So, who knows.. I bought the 4GB model, so it should be functional as a desktop, my plan is to experiment with it as a daily drivers.

Beyond that, what do people think would be a good benchmark to experiment with?

Tim.

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