“Two came in the mail last evening. Preordered 12 December 2023, notice of shipment 9 January 2024, arrived 16 January 2024 - all across the big pond to USA, SC.
Installed Toshiba(Kioxia) 256GB PCIe NVMe 2230 SSD (KBG40ZNS256G) (OEM), 30mm on one and Kioxia EXCERIA 500 GB m.2 NVMe on the other. Followed the instructions/Youtube in the product description and it went like clockwork. I even went the Gen=3 route and WOW what a difference that makes. Now I just have to monitor for stability.
Gotta find a case for these now - maybe you guys got a Pibow case with hackable base in the works. One has (had) official RPi Case with fan (took the fan out and laid it on top of Pi), other has the Active cooler. Oh, and the extra screws and nuts were a plus. One of the nuts had buggered threads. Being able to access the SD card is a plus you don't get with the other company making an adapter. It also makes it pretty fool proof for installation. Only goes together one way.
Keep up the good work.
OBTW The pic shows the speed of RPi Diagnostics on 256GB drive”
“Easy to install, working at Gen 3 with a SK Hynix Gold P31 Gold 1 TB NVME.
/dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Smart Modular Tech. model: SHGP31-1000GM size: 931.51 GiB
pibenchmarks.com score of 52187.”
“Works as described. Allows the addition of an NVME drive to the bottom of the Pi 5.
The cable is a little snug, but overall an easy way to add fast storage to the Pi 5. Even managed to 'adjust' a cheap plastic layered case with a dremel to get it to fit instead of the bottom layer.”
“What a swift start-up ! Had to find a YouTube video for actually putting it onto the RPI5 as there were no instructions with the package. Overall, well worth the wait from the pre-ordering to deploying.”
“Easy to install and configure, fantastic improvement in performance - KDE Plasma desktop loads in under 10 seconds. This has made my RPi5 as fast as 2011 MacBook Pro if not faster!”
