“The over quality appears very nice, quality components and quality fit. After 3 days of fiddling between the RPi5 and the nvme base I am unable to get the Pi to be recognized. On line research confirms this device has technical issues. I feel that this product is inmature for low level users. This is probably a beta level release and needs much more support documeentation for anyone less than a mid-level user.”
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Sorry to hear that - if you drop us a line at support@pimoroni.com with as much info as you can about your setup, what drive you're using and the steps you've tried to get it working we'll do our best to help.
“Very happy, proper storage speeds at last :). Easily double USB3 connected SSD for write, and nearly 3x for read.
After uprading to the latest firmware and the 6.6 kernel this performs flawlessly.
Came with Patriot M.2 P300 256GB
Which performs like this using BTRFS with forced zstd:1 compression.
Category Test Result
HDParm Disk Read 790.55 MB/sec
HDParm Cached Disk Read 338.20 MB/sec
DD Disk Write 591 MB/s
FIO 4k random read 87521 IOPS (350085 KB/s)
FIO 4k random write 36571 IOPS (146285 KB/s)
IOZone 4k read 196657 KB/s
IOZone 4k write 46923 KB/s
IOZone 4k random read 43190 KB/s
IOZone 4k random write 14694 KB/s
Compare to WD My Passport 262E size: 1.82 TiB type: USB 3.0 connected drive with the same filesystem options:
Category Test Result
HDParm Disk Read 303.29 MB/sec
HDParm Cached Disk Read 307.13 MB/sec
DD Disk Write 628 MB/s
FIO 4k random read 40960 IOPS (163840 KB/s)
FIO 4k random write 21833 IOPS (87334 KB/s)
IOZone 4k read 19884 KB/s
IOZone 4k write 17698 KB/s
IOZone 4k random read 14377 KB/s
IOZone 4k random write 20136 KB/s”
“Delivery was SUPER FAST, Item Packaging was very Profesional and secure, Instalation was very easy , and RPI5 was up and running on nvme withing 20 minutes of cloning my SD card to it
Id Buy a second one in a heartbeat , but need a reason for a second RPI5
all thats missing now is support for a second nvme connector so that i can attach a Coral nvme ml processor :)”
“Delivered within 24 hrs of ordering. Followed the instrucional video on the Pimoroni site and was up and running in 10 minutes. easy to attach to Pi5, all the necessary screw, nuts and bolts are provided. I ordered mine with a 256gb NVMe drive. I find the base preferable to a hat and the design is unobtrusive.
My pi5 now boots from NVMe.
For me 5here is certainly a noticable difference in performance with the NVMe drive finally making the pi a viable desktop alternative.”
