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NVMe Base for Raspberry Pi 5 Reviews

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Adrian Ciszewski
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The angled flex cable is great but there is no easy way to remove or change the NVME without complete disasambly
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Posted 1 year ago
Easy to assemble after watching the youtube video to properly orient the cable and see how the coneector latces operate. Even works with PCIe gen 3 enabled (I'm using a Crucial P3 plus 1TB gen4 m.2 ssd). Hint: if you're building a new system, add the nvme base before adding the active cooler to make it easier to install the screw next to it (and plug in the fan before adding the cooler since it is tricky to plug in after the cooler is installed. It would be nice if the spacers (and possibly the cable) was slightly longer so there would be room for a heatsink on the ssd.
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Posted 1 year ago
Lawrence Fondrick
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The NVME base seems to work right out of the box, I did have to review YouTube for tips on istallation though. The Raspberry Pi 5, power adapter and cooling fan all arrived together so no delays there. I benchmarked with latest raspbian to make sure everything functioned as advertised and no issues arose. I would have like to see some "tuning" options included but found alternative sources for that so in the end I am fairly content with product(s) so far. On the "con" side I was disapointed that no case/tower has been designed/offered for this setup I have. It sets on its little rubber feet (provided) waiting for a more stable home. BUT not many other vendors have housing product available to address all the new RPi 5 specifications.
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Posted 1 year ago
Great product to add storage to the raspberry pi without SD cards
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Posted 1 year ago
Does'nt work on crucial MX500 red LED on, the connections are clean, the screws too but does'nt recognize this nvme disk
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Posted 1 year ago
Had to wait for some time because of 3rd batch order. Good quality. Easy installation by following the instructions vedio. But it doesn't fit in the original case, I wish this can be improved on next version. PINN doesn't work for my nvme SSD. Thanks
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Posted 1 year ago
Cristian Balan
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It obviously does the job but it is a shame that it is longer than the Raspberry Pi 5 board on the front side where the connections are meaning that designing a rack panel for it is going to be a pain if not impossible.
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Posted 1 year ago
Lukáš Rýdlo
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Works great, simple assembly! I connected Samsung SSD 980 (500 GB) and it works as expected as a boot device. There are some spare screws in a package, but I thing it will be great if also one spare (maybe also longer) flexible connecting "cable" will be provided.
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Posted 1 year ago