“I'm torn... on one hand, I've had *fairly* good luck with my NVME base (bought two, but haven't used the 2nd one yet), but on the other hand I've just now learned that there's a new "DUAL" NVME base being sold. First question I asked myself was, "Why is the price of the 'DUAL' more than twice the price of a single?!?!"
Perhaps that's not actually a review of the SINGLE NVME base I purchased, but I felt it needed to be said! And I'll add this as a "proper" review:
While I've been generally pleased with my SINGLE NVME base, on two separate occasions I've noticed something odd: At some point during routine usage of my Pi 5, the `/boot` partition of the NVME drive has become "un-mounted"!! When I looked at my system through `lsblk --fs`, I saw both NVME partitions listed, but only the `/` (root) partition showed a mount point!
My solution was simple: I added a `mount -a` statement to the `root crontab` to be run mid-day each day. But even thought the solution was simple, I don't feel I should have needed a "solution" at all.
If it makes any difference the NVME device I use is this one: "Crucial P3 Plus 500GB PCIe Gen4 3D NAND NVMe M.2 SSD, up to 5000MB/s - CT500P3PSSD8"”
Ahoy James!
I believe Duo is more expensive as it has a bunch of extra components compared to the single NVMe Base - it needs to work as a PCIe switch so the hardware (and assembly) is quite a bit more complicated.
If you'd like to return your unused NVMe Base so you can buy a Duo drop us an email at support@pimoroni.com and we can send you our returns details.
Ahoy Ray
Sorry to hear that, it's not an exhaustive compatibility list but there's a list of the drives that we've tested with NVMe Base on the shop page: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/nvme-base
If you need further help please feel free to drop us an email at support@pimoroni.com !
“Great order and came within 2 days and well packaged in a little box. The board iitself is a great little board. Easy to install and works out the box with the Pi5. Comes with all the fixings to join the 2 boards together. I'm currently using a cheap fanxiang M.2 SSD - 512GB SSD from Amazon and getting:
/dev/nvme0n1p2:
Timing O_DIRECT cached reads: 864 MB in 2.00 seconds = 431.37 MB/sec
Timing O_DIRECT disk reads: 1288 MB in 3.00 seconds = 429.31 MB/sec”
