“This is the option I have been waiting for, it transforms the Pi into a very fast usable unit.
Easy to fit, being underneath doesnt interfere with the active cooling and the offset PCIe cable leaves the micro sd card slot available.”
“It went together reasonably easily - youtube vid helped. Some more info on activating the SSD as main drive might have helped.
Works and works well.
Only issue is that it doesn't fit with the Official Pi 5 Case and I have not managed to find another case that it fits.”
“The board was fairly easy to install following the excellent video. I was pleased to have the option of mounting it with the official Pi5 active cooler heatsink in place. Previously I had used a usb data drive (originally on my Pi4) but this new board plus 500Gb drive blows that out of the water. I ran benchmark tests and it scored 43584. Disk read was 815.54Mb/s on the supplied ADATA SX8200 PRO. I adjusted to board to run Gen-3 and have had no problems running at the speeds this gives, having used the board for nearly a week.
Well done on an excellent product.”
“Worked first time - the Pimorini video and setup instructions made things straightforward (if a bit fiddly). Now have my Pi 5 booting off the 500GB NVME SSD. The Pi no longer fits in the case I had bought but I guess thats to be expected - the little feet included with the base make it perfectly useable without case..”
“Arrived quickly, super easy to install and works great. It makes such a difference to the performance of the Pi over using an SD card. It boots up much quicker and in use feels like a regular PC.”
“This is a great piece of kit and makes the Pi5 fly ! I have been getting 800MB/s sustained read in tests.
As it makes the pi much taller I decided to design a 3D printed case specifically for this board and you can find it on the Printables website.
https://www.printables.com/model/722026-raspberry-pi-5-case-for-pimoroni-nvme-ssd-base/comments”
