“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.”
“Very nice bit of kit. With a 2tb nvme SSD rpi5 is invincible (and very small and quiet while it's at it!) Very easy to fit and looks great. Can't wait for the modified Pibows to emerge”
