“Took longer to arrive than I would hve liked (too used to next day delivery) but these are fairly new products and the company was upfront about when they would likely be shipped, which turned out to be accurate
The board itself is OK with all the accessories you would need to install it
Not sure how robust both the ribbon cable and the clip that secures it to the board are. They should not get too much abuse, but both seem pretty flimsy and would not take much of a knock to damage them. The ones on my Pineberry top hat seem better
With the board being bottom mounted it allows you to attach a cooler / fan to the CPU etc, and the double bent ribbon cable allows clear access to the SD card slot, which the more straight pineberry does not
But definately a great improvement from SD card in terms of speed, capacity and reliability and if you update your configs (as per Jeff Greeling) then boot times are almost instant
All in all a great little bit of kit. This should be built ino the next top range pi as standard as these boards are showing the way
Fits nicely in my pithagorus 3-4-5 stack”
“Using the instructions on shop.pimoroni.com made assembly easy. Some minor confusion with raspberry pi latest firmware, but figured it out. It, plus the standard pi cooler, make a nice stand alone installation...no case needed. Very happy with this product.”
“I'm very happy with it. The video and instructions were easy to follow. Setting up was very quick. I'm getting good read speeds from the drive.
I like that they have offset the PCIe connectors to allow getting the SD card in/out.”
“Good quality, the package came with a recommended brand M2 SSD, the process was seamless of installing it and copying my SD card to M2 SSD. The speeds are impressive. I've seen 428 ms online but the SSD that came with mine are 440 Ms. Will recommend to a friend”
“Although it was interesting to assemble, there were clear instructions and a good video. Once I managed to get the software/firmware settings correct, it works perfectly and boots very quickly. And it looks to be very well made as well.”
“Easy to install, both hardware and software.
A significant speed increase compared to an SD-card.
Recommended for everyone who wants stable and fast storage.”
