“Finally! NVMe boot in a pi footprint...
Great product, well engineered. Literally took me 15 mins to assemble, fit, and transfer o/s onto the new NVMe drive. I get some reasonable performance too. 828MB/s reads according to hdparm. Pi boots so fast now. Great for an RPi desktop, or a media server / player etc.
Looking forward to some cases which will fit. I think in the description there was talk that Pimoroni are working on one, but hopefully some other alternatives too.”
“Very easy to put together, although I did have to watch the video carefully. Once constructed, the Pi becomes a nice compact device which can live in the smallest of spaces! Worked well with Ubuntu 23.10 as well.”
“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.”
