“I bought this along with a Patriot P300 SSD - it was delivered very quickly and, by following the guide on the Pimoroni website, it was installed and up and running in no time at all. It all works perfectly and the boot up and read/write times have improved from what was already impressive to pretty damn quick!. The NVMe base is good value for money as well being cheaper than currently available alternatives. Personally I prefer this to a HAT solution as it is completely out of the way and does no affect cooling fan air flow - all we need now is a Pibow case to match!”
“Everything feels well produced and the base fits perfectly on my Pi5, the ribbon cable is well designed and leave the card reader accessable for inserting a micro sd card.
The only thing what maked me a bit trouble was some issues after I installed my nvme drive.
I had some problems with the nvme controller, when I looked in the error log I found some controller restart or not found error messages.
After I added "usb_max_current_enable=1" it seems to be solved, everything work stable now.”
“Easy to install. Very reliably at PCIe Gen3 speeds, so I get 950MB/s from a cheap NVMe drive. Recently shipped Pi5 boards seem to have up to date firmware in their EEPROM, so it just works.”
“Works just fine at first time with a Samsnung 980 Pro 1TB with no SSD on BookWorm Lite 64 freshly installed and updated. Performance are quite good: Write speed between 358 and 942 MB/s and read speed between 8.3 to 11.3 GB/S. The delivered product is very well packed and its quality is also very good. I'm totally satisfied. I will no be able to create my new Arcade for now on a Picade Console with Player X but targetting the Picade (Seems to be not possible at the moment).”
“As a newcomer to the entire Raspberry Pi scene, I was pleasantly surprised by how quick and easy the NVMe base was to install and configure. I am currently transferring 1TB of media to my 2TB Crucial P3 attached to the base without any issue. This is definitely a great investment! 10/10 would recommend.”
“The main reason I chose this base is because the ribbon cable allows access to the SD card slot, but I was pleasantly surprised by the overall quality and appearance of this base. Install was quick and easy - looked at it and the included hardware for a second and installed it without looking at any directions. Shipping was quick as well. Thanks for an awesome addition to the pi 5!”
