“The base is ok, but for the price of 50+ UKP I would have expected a slightly longer ribbon.
The included ribbon makes it hard to use a case, although the base can be mounted upside down on a pibow case, but this meant I had to remove the audio hat. I’ve had to buy a Chinese clone cable from eBay instead.”
“Having done this 'Task' on a Pi 4, I was not looking forward to this install on my new Pi 5, BUT, I followed the video on the mechanical build. There at the end of the video were the instructions on how to image the new drive and then in a raspi-config menu item, select the move drive as the boot. None of the fiddling with UUID's etc as before. Simple to do! The SD card was now showing as a mounted drive so I was able to simply look through the roor file system on it and fix my flab and several other items
Finally, I set the 'gen 3' setting as per their Instructions and the speed is incredible. Only a few seconds and the du command showed 6.8 GB of files on the drive. Wow. I am impressed!”
“My Pi 5 is now a very usable desktop computer. Blazing fast and boots in about 11 seconds.
My original order suffered pretty severe damage during shipping. After contacting customer support they immediately dispatched a replacement in a sturdier container. The folks at Pimoroni are top notch.”
“I have not installed it yet... I am hoping someone will come up with an aluminum shielded case for the Raspi 5 AND the Pimoroni SSD add-on.
I am using Raspi 5 in heavy RF radio signals with my antenna 2m above my head on the roof. I want to be sure not to blow up the Raspi.
Pleeeeeze.... Offer us a shielded case. Come on.... design and offer one.”
“Well done to Pimoroni for getting this useful upgrade on the market so quickly. The Rasberry Pi 5 is jolly fast running off a decent SDcard, but with this NVMe Base and the bundled 500GB Pimoroni SSD it is lightening fast! Using it at pci gen 2 (the default) I get no errors and hdparm buffered reads of 420MB/sec. On my Pi 4s the best I got was 44MB/sec. Unfortunately I didn't have much luck with pci gen 3. Hdparm was encouranging at over 800MB/sec, but the system wasn't stable - once the disk went offline completely, once I did a "sudo apt update" then "sudo apt upgrade" and although everything looked fine, after a reboot none of the upgrades had actually been stored. The log was full of strange dbus messages and a lot of pciport warnings "AER: Corrected error received... ...[ 6] BadTLP". Personally I wasn't too bothered since the default gen 2 is very very fast! For the price this is very good upgrade for a very good Raspberry Pi!”
