“This is a bit fiddly to assemble, but once done it works perfectly. It's not good if you need to repeatedly change the uSD Card as once it's in you would have to disconnect the PCIE ribbon to gain access.”
“Nice, elegant piece of kit. Great companion for Pi5. Feels like must-have for Pi5, as nvme for boot media is no-brainer over sd-card. Assembly was easy, temps stay low, me like it a lot!”
“A very happy customer reports : This tiny enclosure got my NAS needs sorted. Very precise build quality, good documentation and solid performance. Temps dropped to mid-30s on idle with OpenMediaVault. Pimoroni’s shipping was swift as always.”
“Didn't like it, not using it. I may of just got a bad print but not all the screw holes would support the supplied screws and no matter how many times I re-seated the nvme ribbon, I could not get my pi to recognize the nvme as being connected. Add to that, the fan is noisier than the official pi fan and the fact you can't access the SD without taking it apart. That's a no from me, I'll continue using the Pimoroni nvme base till something better comes along.”
“I won't claim it was the easiest assembly in my life, but it wasn't hard either. The PCIe flex cable gave me some trouble and the fan cable too. The former is short enough that wasn't able to fumble into the connector first try (though the short length probably helps signal integrity, so I am not considering it a negative - just to be clear); the latter is a flat cable that has a 'channel' in the die-cast 'middle' half lid (?), but does not want to stay in that channel, so one has to try to 'convince' the fan cable to stay in place while simultanously closing the half lid onto the base. Not the end of the world, but I wonder if a round cable would have cooperated more willingly...
I am getting lower temperatures that on my old Pi 3 with a sizeable (~ 2x6x8cm passive) heatsink with the fan not kicking in at all, but it's practically 0 load on it. Haven't tried putting significant load and/or longer 'runs' to see how it tolerates heat soak. When turned on fan goes full speed until later in the boot process, not super loud, but also not the nicest sounding fan either. Reminds me a little bit of fan that's rattly and makes blade contact with housing, even though I am sure it is not the case here. In my use case it doesn't matter much and I don't expect the fan to ever go full tilt.”
