Hello! It's Jim from JetsonHacks.com. On today's show we are going to install a
solid-state disk onboard the Nvidia Jetson AGX Xavier Developer Kit
Let's get started. One of the nice things about the Xavier is that there is a M.2
key M slot where you can install a solid-state disk. Make sure that you have
a PCIe version of the M.2 Key M drive. Today we're going to install a Western
Digital WD Black, high performance, NVMe SSD. It's 500 GBs. You know how
we like our GBs! Today we're using the anti-static mat so we don't have any ESD
issues. I'm going to wear my little wristband. Put it on. I'll leave a link in
the description below to this particular mat. It's a portable one. That's why it
has these little ridges in it, because we fold it up. The M.2 key M slot is
located between the carrier board and the Jetson module. Let's turn our Xavier
upside down here. To detach the Jetson module from the carrier board, we need to
remove these four screws. One, two, three, four. We will use a number two phillips
screwdriver. There's a little bit of Loctite on the screws, it might take a
little bit extra to get the screws undone. We'll put these aside. There is a six
hundred ninety nine pin connector holding the module to the carrier board.
It's located right here. So we will carefully disconnect it.
We need to be careful when we detach it. There is a wire that goes from the
module to the carrier board which controls the fan. It's very delicate, so
we want to be careful. Move this out of the way for the moment. The wire is not
long enough to reach from the top of the Jetson module to the surface of the
table. I'm going to use this hideously coloured piece of foam to support the
carrier board when I remove it. You could use a book or something. You may want to
consider removing this connector. You'll need a pair of tweezers, but the wires
are very tiny. I don't want to mess with it. Here's the M.2 key M connector. Here's
the 699 pin connector, and here's the mate for it, Let's remove this screw
which will hold the card in place.
Let's take our SSD card out of the package. Oh boy!
Instructions! Some people might find these useful. Put the packaging aside.
Let's put our SSD in. Then let's install the mounting screw.
Put this back on.
And let's put our standoffs back in.
Installation complete! The next step is to hook up our Xavier and configure the
disk. Let's switch over to our screencast. We're back over on our machine. Let's
take a look at our disks application. Oh
look at this! 500 GBs just like we predicted! Let's format the disk. Go up to
the utility menu, format disk. Compatible with modern systems, that's what we want.
GPT format. Are you sure you want to format the disk? Yes please.
Format. Password. Okay now we have free space of 500 gigabytes. Let's add a
partition. Notice that the little plus button showed up. Our partition size,
let's make it the full size of the disk. Next! We will give it a name. XavierSSD500
That sounds fast! We want to make sure that it's Linux ext4. Create!
Okay, so now we have our device. p1, our partition. If we want to come back
later and change our partition size, we can do that using the little gear icon.
Resize it. The triangle here mounts our selected partition. Let's open her up.
The folder is empty and there's our little disk.
It seems relatively happy. We may also want the disk to auto mount when we boot
the system. Let's go back to our disks app. Edit the mount options. Here are
all our options, you may want to change the mounting point or whatever to match
your particular preferences. For the purposes of this demonstration,
we'll just leave it like this. OK. Okay,
we're going to add an entry to the /etc/fstab file. Authenticate. Let's reboot.
Okay let's take a look. 'Other locations' and here it is XavierSSD500. You can
see that it is mounted. If you liked this video, give it a thumbs up. Please
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