“This is a great little product that speeds up the Raspberry Pi 5 enormously. I took a gamble buying a smaller and hence cheaper NMVe drive from Amazon for around £22, which worked a treat - MMoment MT34 256GB if interested. Using the hdparm command (which I had to install using APT) showed I was getting 760 MB/s read speed.
My install process was - install Pi OS on SD card first, change config.txt file by adding two lines dtparam=nvme and dtparam=pciex1_gen=3, after that, I entered sudo rpi-eeprom-config --edit and added two lines BOOT_ORDER=0xf416 and PCIE_PROBE=1. After Rebooting I cloned the SD card to the NVMe drive using SD Card Copier (in Accessories). Finally removed the SD card and rebooted from the NVMe drive.”
“excellent, clear instructions
I didn't get one end of the cable in properly first time, but watch the video and see how cables are pushed in and connector held in place”
“The NVMe Base is a really good quality addition to my Raspberry Pi 5, it is nice that you can fit the full range of NVMe SSD sizes and from my testing offers significantly faster speeds when compared to usb3 SSDs. I like the fact that it fits nicely under the PI 5 without the storage solution taking up usb slots, bandwidth and space. It makes the RPI5 feel a bit more substantial for those who are running them without a case and just the heat sink on top and it comes with rubber feet which is a nice addition.
All of this and it has the funky silk screen designs which we all know and love from Pimoroni products.”
“Really pleased with this product! After already trying a competing "HAT" product that has some pretty severe compatibility issues with the drives that I already owned, the Pimoroni NVMe Base just worked! Currently running a Solidigm P41 2TB without any issues.”
“Works like a dream. I use it with Crucial P3 plus 500GB M.2 SSD
780MB read and 330MB write.
Big upgrade from micro sd card. Also big plus PCIe ribbon cable don't cover SD card slot like some other brands do.
This is must have. Hopefully Pimoroni will release some acrylic cases compatible with nvme base looking forward for that.”
