# Orin Nano 8GB without NVME

**URL:** <https://forums.balena.io/t/orin-nano-8gb-without-nvme/378164>\
**Category:** balenaOS\
**Tags:** jetson, nano\
**Created:** [June 22, 2026, 1:25pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/orin-nano-8gb-without-nvme/378164 "2026-06-22T13:25:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Tomlogan501](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@Tomlogan501](https://forums.balena.io/u/Tomlogan501)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2026, 1:25pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/orin-nano-8gb-without-nvme/378164/1 "2026-06-22T13:25:33Z")

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Hi guys,

I would like to test on a Jetson Orin Nano 8 Gb dev kit but without the NVME disk, I got a SD card.

Is it the same setup to go for ?

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**Author:** ![rosswesleyporter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@rosswesleyporter](https://forums.balena.io/u/rosswesleyporter)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2026, 7:49pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/orin-nano-8gb-without-nvme/378164/2 "2026-06-22T19:49:37Z")

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Hi @Tomlogan501,

Good question. We don’t test Orin Nano devices using an SD card. In part because while the dev kit has a dev SOM with an SD card slot, the Orin Nano production SOMs do not have an SD card slot. We suggest using NVMe.

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**Author:** ![Tomlogan501](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@Tomlogan501](https://forums.balena.io/u/Tomlogan501)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2026, 8:16am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/orin-nano-8gb-without-nvme/378164/3 "2026-06-30T08:16:12Z")

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I did use a cheap NVME SSD and it worked flawlessly but I will try later with SD Card