“While my shaky 75 year old hands found fitting the ribbon cable a bit fiddly the rest of the assembly was pretty obvious and, while I had to be a bit creative because I'd started with the starter kit (the case with the white top and red base) I had enough parts in the Pi M.2 HAT+ kit to fit my Pi5 into a nice new looking transparent case. I've had to dispesnse with the fan to do this and I'm not sure how I would ever use the interface pins again either but with UBUNTU running from the SD and the generic OS running on the SSD card I'm happy enough for the time being.*”
“Arrived on time. A doddle to set up especially as the hat came with the ribbon cable already attached. Software side was relatively easy but the drive icon doesn’t appear on the desktop. Highly recommended.”
“I’ve got a Raspberry Pi 5 running Plexamp with a Topping DAC connected to an old '90s DENON amp. I’m playing large FLAC files, but the SD card struggles with the casing, giving me the circle of death. After installing an NVMe drive with a Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT, everything ran buttery smooth! I highly recommend this setup”
“Quite like this - it's inexpensive and the official way to add M.2 storage to the Pi 5, but I prefer the Pimoroni Bases - they keep the GPIO pins available and are a neater solution.”
“I bought the M.2 HAT+ to pop in on old Steam Deck SSD that I had spare. My Pi could see it, but refused to boot from it. I bought another SSD that people had said was compatible & it worked straight away.
So, it does what you'd expect, but can be fussy.”
