“Having done this 'Task' on a Pi 4, I was not looking forward to this install on my new Pi 5, BUT, I followed the video on the mechanical build. There at the end of the video were the instructions on how to image the new drive and then in a raspi-config menu item, select the move drive as the boot. None of the fiddling with UUID's etc as before. Simple to do! The SD card was now showing as a mounted drive so I was able to simply look through the roor file system on it and fix my flab and several other items
Finally, I set the 'gen 3' setting as per their Instructions and the speed is incredible. Only a few seconds and the du command showed 6.8 GB of files on the drive. Wow. I am impressed!”
“My Pi 5 is now a very usable desktop computer. Blazing fast and boots in about 11 seconds.
My original order suffered pretty severe damage during shipping. After contacting customer support they immediately dispatched a replacement in a sturdier container. The folks at Pimoroni are top notch.”
“I have not installed it yet... I am hoping someone will come up with an aluminum shielded case for the Raspi 5 AND the Pimoroni SSD add-on.
I am using Raspi 5 in heavy RF radio signals with my antenna 2m above my head on the roof. I want to be sure not to blow up the Raspi.
Pleeeeeze.... Offer us a shielded case. Come on.... design and offer one.”
“Well done to Pimoroni for getting this useful upgrade on the market so quickly. The Rasberry Pi 5 is jolly fast running off a decent SDcard, but with this NVMe Base and the bundled 500GB Pimoroni SSD it is lightening fast! Using it at pci gen 2 (the default) I get no errors and hdparm buffered reads of 420MB/sec. On my Pi 4s the best I got was 44MB/sec. Unfortunately I didn't have much luck with pci gen 3. Hdparm was encouranging at over 800MB/sec, but the system wasn't stable - once the disk went offline completely, once I did a "sudo apt update" then "sudo apt upgrade" and although everything looked fine, after a reboot none of the upgrades had actually been stored. The log was full of strange dbus messages and a lot of pciport warnings "AER: Corrected error received... ...[ 6] BadTLP". Personally I wasn't too bothered since the default gen 2 is very very fast! For the price this is very good upgrade for a very good Raspberry Pi!”
“Came on time. Nicely packaged. Very easy to fit and simple instructions via youtube to set up the raspberry OS. Worked first time and is great with the 240Gb drive card that is recommend to go with it. Must better speed overall in using the PI5.”
“I love the Pimoroni Base as it still leaves space to add a hat - in my case, planning for a PoE hat. I'm looking forward for cases that work well with the base. The product is also high quality, as is traditional with Pimoroni products.”
“Excelent product, easy to install. The only minor problem found was that the ribbon cable prevents easy removal of the micro SD card when required. Not a major issue. It would be nice if Pimoroni produced a case for the Pi 5 with the base.”
