“Product works very well. Two disappointing but minor issues. The flex cable does not allow for wider spacing meaning it must fit directly beneath the pi. Also the screw fixing to hold the ssd is not brilliant. However - excellent product and works well.”
“This product is an exceptional tool and an obvious choice for anyone undertaking a project centred on the RPI-5. This was set up and operational in a matter of minutes, showcasing an exceptionally well-crafted design and complete functionality. It comes highly recommended.”
“Worked like a charm, easy install, easy setup.. happy customer!! Used the base of the fan and sandwiched it between the pi and the base. No issues whatsoever..”
“A great little board that fits under the Pi allowing the addition of a NVMe PCIE Gen3 M.2 SSD. As it's underneath, it still allows additional Pi HATS to be attached to the Pi on top.
NVMe SSDs are significantly faster than SD cards (though the initial configuration has to be started from the SD card to set the EEPROM settings allowing booting/etc from the NVMe SSD).
A great addition to any Pi 5 setup.”
“Great little board, and for the price, I’ll have to buy a 2nd for one of my other projects now.
It does fit as a hat if you’re using the official Pi5 case, you just need some 20mm standoffs (but 22mm would be ideal).
Now to I plan to run my LLM from a 2TB m.2 drive.”
“Hooked up to my Pi5 with a 1 TB WD NVME and it works perfectly. I was previously booting from a USB SSD and getting ~130MB/s now seeing above 400MB/s.”
“Super pleased with my NVMe Base for Raspberry Pi 5, very easy to get up and running, I used the Pimeroni assembly video as my guide.
My unit runs with PCI gen three speeds and is configured as the boot drive.
I think the engineering of this board is really good, the flexible curved PCB allows the SD card to be removed easily, the M2 drive is easily accessible, but also protected, and the board is safe when on its base on a worktop, as practically no electrical connections are present.
Not only that, the unit is very reasonably priced and is very smart.
I would suggest, that if long bolts were made available (to go through the pillars), it would provide an excellent way for ad-hoc mounting of the board.”
