I’ve done a lot more experimenting with this. I’ve determined two things with a high degree of certainty, and between those, I’m a bit stuck.
- For whatever reason, the Orico enclosure that worked fine before draws too much power from the Pi when using the Silicon Power NVME. I don’t understand this, or know how to fix it. I think I’m stuck.
- My powered USB 3.0 hub (Sabrent 4 port model) is unreliable with the Raspberry Pi. I’m very confused about this, as I bought this model because it was specifically recommended for use with the Pi, but with the hub plugged into AC power and no devices plugged in the hub, if I try to turn on the Pi it won’t even try to boot. I don’t even get any output to HDMI.
I did have it booting tonight, but then it stopped. I’m not sure what I did differently, except that I think I turned the Pi on with no media attached (no USB drive, no SD card), let it start looping, looking for a boot drive, then connected the hub while it was turned on and had the USB drive attached. I was even able to restart it without a problem, but then I had to unplug it and got back to square one.
I will try to confirm whether that works tomorrow. If that does work, it’s a ridiculous solution. It introduces an entire extra mess of wires and hardware to the already crammed area where the Pi is, and hardly seems stable.