“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!”
“Came on time. Nicely packaged. Very easy to fit and simple instructions via youtube to set up the raspberry OS. Worked first time and is great with the 240Gb drive card that is recommend to go with it. Must better speed overall in using the PI5.”
“I love the Pimoroni Base as it still leaves space to add a hat - in my case, planning for a PoE hat. I'm looking forward for cases that work well with the base. The product is also high quality, as is traditional with Pimoroni products.”
“Excelent product, easy to install. The only minor problem found was that the ribbon cable prevents easy removal of the micro SD card when required. Not a major issue. It would be nice if Pimoroni produced a case for the Pi 5 with the base.”
“Excellent item. easy to set up and use. Works perfectly. My only issue was mounting under the red/white pi case. I needed to enlarge the sim slot hole in the case to allow the ide cable to pass through cleanly. Some longer screws (8/10mm) would allow mounting through the case and securing to the rpi.”
“This thing is awesome! It was super easy to install and now my Raspberry Pi feels blazing fast. The only problem is now I want it for all my Raspberry Pi's”
