“If your fingers are large and unsteady like mine you might find it fiddly to assemble, esp connecting the data ribbon, but once installed it works great.”
“Finally! NVMe boot in a pi footprint...
Great product, well engineered. Literally took me 15 mins to assemble, fit, and transfer o/s onto the new NVMe drive. I get some reasonable performance too. 828MB/s reads according to hdparm. Pi boots so fast now. Great for an RPi desktop, or a media server / player etc.
Looking forward to some cases which will fit. I think in the description there was talk that Pimoroni are working on one, but hopefully some other alternatives too.”
“Very easy to put together, although I did have to watch the video carefully. Once constructed, the Pi becomes a nice compact device which can live in the smallest of spaces! Worked well with Ubuntu 23.10 as well.”
“This is a great little product that speeds up the Raspberry Pi 5 enormously. I took a gamble buying a smaller and hence cheaper NMVe drive from Amazon for around £22, which worked a treat - MMoment MT34 256GB if interested. Using the hdparm command (which I had to install using APT) showed I was getting 760 MB/s read speed.
My install process was - install Pi OS on SD card first, change config.txt file by adding two lines dtparam=nvme and dtparam=pciex1_gen=3, after that, I entered sudo rpi-eeprom-config --edit and added two lines BOOT_ORDER=0xf416 and PCIE_PROBE=1. After Rebooting I cloned the SD card to the NVMe drive using SD Card Copier (in Accessories). Finally removed the SD card and rebooted from the NVMe drive.”
