“I paired the Pimoroni NVMe Base up with a Lexar 1TB NM790 SSD and configured the Pi5 for PCIe Gen3. It's performed flawlessly and provides a blistering read speed of 870MB/s for sequential reads and gives a pibenchmarks score of around 58,000.
The Lexar also has the benefit of being well within the 1A limit for the Pi5's PCIe connector. Most other SSDs that perform this well are too power hungry for a PCIe adaptor without suplementary power, so bear this in mind when selecting an SSD to use with the NVMe Base.
The Pi5 has now replaced my beast of an AMD PC for everything apart from gaming and video encoding. It feels surprisingly nippy with a modest overclock to 2.7GHz when booting from an NVMe SSD!”
“Did not come with complete hardware. There were no hex stand off spacers to attach to the NVME board. There may be other missing parts, but have not taken inventory. Shows lack of attention to detail and is disappointing. This was my first purchase ever from Pimoroni and the impression is not good. If made whole, I might change my impression, since no company is mistake free, good companies fix their errors promptly.
Update: After bringing this to the attention of customer service, they responded and shipped me some new hardware, which I just received. Bravo! Standup customer service! While I was waiting for the hardware, I managed to get things working with a Samsung 980 1TB NVMe. Seems to be slightly unstable at Gen3, but works rather well at Gen2. So I now rate this at 4.5 stars.”
“The circuit board is missing an optional offer from you for a matching case or a matching base plate for a common case.
Zur Platine fehlt ein optionales Angebot zu einem darauf abgestimmten Gehäuse, oder einer passenden Bodenplatte zu einem gängigen Gehäuse, von euch.”
“Works ok for the most part still testing it out with my samsung 980 pro. There are a few errors in dmesg
[ 1044.362082] pcieport 0000:00:00.0: AER: Corrected error received: 0000:00:00.0
[ 1044.362094] pcieport 0000:00:00.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected, type=Data Link Layer, (Receiver ID)
[ 1044.362098] pcieport 0000:00:00.0: device [14e4:2712] error status/mask=00000080/00002000
[ 1044.362101] pcieport 0000:00:00.0: [ 7] BadDLLP
[ 1048.389703] pcieport 0000:00:00.0: AER: Corrected error received: 0000:00:00.0
That I'm trying to work out.”
