I would avoid using SD cards and go for something else like M.2 or NVMe for storage. SD cards tend to be on the lesser side in terms of performance, failure rate, and silicon quality in general.

Whilst the headlined article is interesting, it's a case of the new and shiny distracting from regressions in what already exists.

The Raspberry Pi 5 is lacking in some fairly basic support that the Pi 4 has. There's no TianoCore, no NetBSD, no FreeBSD, no OpenBSD, no OmniOS(CE) … in fact nothing at all apart from Raspberry Pi OS. A couple of of the operating systems seem to point the finger at poorly documented hardware changes that the manufacturer has been no help with.

* https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-platforms/tree/master/Plat...

* https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/raspberry_pi/#index6h2

* https://www.freebsd.org/where/#download

* https://www.openbsd.org/arm64.html

* https://downloads.omnios.org/media/braich/

So the question that comes to my mind is whether this is yet further new and different Raspberry Pi 5 hardware that comes with no software or prospect of software.