“If you want to boost your Pi 5's storage performance, the NVMe Base is a perfect choice. It is easy to set up and comes with clear instructions. The base has a sleek design and a professional look. The speed is impressive.”
“This is quite simply brilliant. I've always felt that the Pi is held back by the speed of the SD card, especially in the case of the Pi5, so adding a full-speed NVMe SSD was an obvious move. It transforms the feel of the machine, removing all those little pauses before things happen, dramatically reducing the boot time, and turns the Pi5 into a genuine contender as a medium-duty desktop machine for seriously low cost. Or you could spend a bit more money and fit a 4TB SSD for significant storage on a media player, file server, or similar.
It's easy enough to fit - perhaps a little bit fiddly in places, but then that's true of most Pi accessories given the small size of the unit.”
“Easy to fit, works well
At standard PCI speeds even normal processes are faster
Not had the guts to try 3.0 speeds yet
Do an EEPROM update to latest version first before you fit, check you boot OK
Then Watch the video before assembling
Sort the nuts and bolts
Then play the video, and do exactly as per the video while assembling
RASPI-CONFIG can be used to set boot order”
“Works great and looks better than other available base plates.
Installing the base is very easy when following the instruction video on youtube.
After the PCIe-port is enabled it just works.”
