“Followed the setup guide on youtube and the same is on the Pimoroni site, simple setup, nice that you get extra screws. Works really well and only file edit was to enable support for PCIe 3 other than that worked out the box. Excellent”
“Lovely bit of kit. It’s worth working out which screws you’re going to use before you start.
It’s not really going to work with any existing case either. If you do manage for example the top few layers it’ll hamper even more access to the sd card slot.
But once assembled it works and works beautifully. I’ve been using my Pi5 with the NVMe base as my daily PC for a few weeks now.”
“There is absolutely no queation of should you put nvme on your pi5, the performance increase says it all.
Can't even imagine going back to sd card. And its not even that expensive for a 500gb drive. So much storage as well. Very happy with purchase.”
“I am no hardware guy. Not even close. I wanted the NVMe BASE HAT, but I also feared it a bit.
But the package was complete, clear and easy to use. The instructions on youtube were perfect. Within 30 minutes I not only had my NVMe SSD connected, I also had my Pi 5 boot from it, at high speed, without the least problem.
In other words, I love it.”
“I ordered a RPI 5, power supply and active cooler with an Pimoroni NVME base and 512GB NVME drive. The base was a pre-order, so it took a couple of weeks before it shipped... but once it shipped it got to my home in Indiana,USA in just a few days .. surprisingly fast. All was easy to assemble. Once together, the pi and cooler worked great, but the NVME drive was not being detected. On closer examination I found that I had not inserted the ribbon cable properly (it was a little crooked), so I corrected that problem, reassembled, and everything worked perfectly and has continued to work perfectly.
I had a couple of occasions to contact Customer Service with questions and was impressed with how quickly and pleasantly they were able to help me. Very nice people.
Hoping there will be a PI case for the NVME-base-equipped PI at some point.. I like seeing the bare bones, but don't want it to collect too much dust ..
All in all, very happy with Pimoroni and their products and staff. Thanks.”
