“Spot... on.... ive been running FLIRC cases for years..(which are very good!) this is the next step.. nice fit .. nvme is a must these days and a built in cooler with fan is a definate plus..!! well done!”
“This case was easy to assamble and all functions was up and running at first
power-up. I like the way this box is desigen with respect to cooling, silent passive cooling and a fan which turn on when needed.”
“Smart little case for the Pi. Wires for the Fan are a little fiddly to position.
Running home assistant so not really pushed it, but no noise from the in-built fan.”
“Physically it's pretty and goes together nicely. It also kept the CPU cool at ~45C. Unfortunately the main feature of this case, namely the inclusion of an NVME interface, is very hit and miss. I'm running Home Assistant. I tried both supplied cables and the PCIE set to gen 2 rather than gen 3 speeds. The longest up-time I got was ~1 week using the black cable and PCIE gen 2, before Home Assistant started playing up (backups failing, scripts and scenes not working, etc).
Some people report success and claim it's a compatibility problem with NVME SSDs with a certain chipset. This is back-to-front reasoning: If the NVME drives work in other devices, such as PCs and on other NVME interfaces, then clearly the problem is with the NVME interface in the NEO 5 M.2 NVME, and not the NVME drive!
So it's back to the official Raspberry Pi 5 case with a small NVME interface that fits on top and higher idle temperatures.”
