“Despite the glowing reviews I am having issues with this board. Even though I'm using the official Pi 5 power supply, with this board and drive I get almost continuous errors that the power supply cannot supply enough current! Seems that the power supply can only power the Pi and not anything that may be attached, which is a shame and short sited.
I cannot boot from the NVMe. The Pi sees it when Pi OS is running, and an image can be flashed, but when I try to boot it just says /dev/nvme not found and boots from the SD card. It must be just me as everyone else seems to be up and flying without issue.”
“Success, I've just got Google m-key coral TPU to work with this board. I admit it wouldn't be possible without the excellent work of Jeff Geerling on his blog https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/pcie-coral-tpu-finally-works-on-raspberry-pi-5. but it goes to show how versatile adding pcie is to the pi 5”
“Easy to assemble to the RPi5 and works well. Simple install to boot from the NVMe. The S shape ribbon between boards leaves the SD card accessible, unlike other designs.”
“Works brilliantly and is easy to install. Gets warm with a lot of I/O but no noticeable throttling. Get about 1GB per second sequential on reads and writes.”
“Easy installation, after changing the configuration and cloning the SD card to the SSD, the Raspberry Pi5 now works very efficiently with a Samsung SSD 980 Pro without any SD card”
“I've been waiting a long time for such a simple NVMe bootable Pi solution. Within 15 minutes of unboxing the NVMe base and a Pi 5, I had a nice desktop booting from a Crucial 2TB Gen 3 drive.
Boot times are blisteringly quick, compared to a micro SD card. Next, to start replacing the nodes in my Kubernetes cluster with these...”
