“So I have two of these both on 8GB PI 5. I am running a 1TB Samsung 970Evo plus on one and 2TB WD580 on the other with read speeds 800MB/s plus. Both running at Gen3 with no reported errors so far.
I have tried a WD SN770 which only worked at Gen 2 speed and also a WD SN850X which was not recognised at all.
Attaching the flex cable is fiddly, just take your time!”
“Easy to set up, works a charm further adding to the speed and functionality of the PI 5 and in a compact and protective form factor keeping you new NVMe drive safe and secure.”
“I'm delighted with the design and performance. It was easy to install thanks to the demonstration video and the clever cable design means that the microSD card is still accessible. Performance-wise it has lived up to the claims: with a spare Western Digital SN520 256GB drive hdparm returns speeds of ~450 and ~830MB/s using PCIE gen 2 or 3 respectively. (Your own mileage may vary.) I'm writing this review using the Pi with the OS installed to the SSD; the software installation was also very easy.”
“I'm nicely impressed with the Pimoroni NVMe base, I was lucky enough to have received one of the first units and it came well packaged. At the time of writing, there's a limited number of NVMe products but one of the key differences is the Pi5 to NVMe ribbon, this is angled and does not restrict access to the SD card which is key, other products block access.
Installed Western Digital 1TB SSD and succesfully run PCIe GEN 3”
“Excellent base. Better than others due to shape of flex cable that allows access to Pi SD card.
Just be careful when fitting flex cable as it needs to be perfectly square to work correctly.”
“3/5 for the simple fact that Pimoroni completely missed a trick in making this coupe compatible. All it would have taken was offering a slightly longer ribbon cable to allow the base to reach from the pi to the pcie connector on the nvme base. Sadly this seems to be something that happens to Pimoroni products of late they launch mostly working well but pretty soon are left with little official support due to OS upgrades. Time will tell how long this base is supported, or if I t goes the way of support for the likes of pirate radio and picade products.”
“Works better than I expected once I managed the get the fiddly cable in the right position. That was really challenging but once there it's great. Got a Samsung980 250gb stick from Amazon for £28. And it fly's.”
