@Dennis-LaRock posted:Dave,
Looks like I'm in... with a little overkill. I just pulled the trigger on the 8G Pi 5 (bare board). I have a Samsung M.2 970 Pro that I just took out of the workstation and it's gathering dust so I ordered the Pineboards POE+ (2280 M.2). Not the cheapest configuration... but hey, it's for the trains.
That will more than do!!! FYI, I just installed the M2 hat that Raspberry Pi itself distributes and it worked perfectly. One thing to watch out for. I had better luck using the “Copy SD card” in the Pi gui to clone my system image onto the M2 drive (requires a VNC connection; everything else I do via ssh).
— Dave