“It all works well together. I have the rpi5 booting from NVMe with no SD card in it. I needed the SD card to bootstrap the process.
Only issue I hit is that as far as I can see is the the CLI option for rpi-updater does not allow you to configure sshd for the build so I needed to write that from a PC rather than just doing it from the rpi5 booted from SD card.
I bought a USB caddy for the NVMe drive to write it as I was too lazy to open up my PC and use an NVMe slot on the motherboard. It is dark and dusty below the desk!”
“Installation was simple, if fiddly due to the ribbon connector for the PCIe.
Definately needs a case - I was moving the Pi5 while it was running and must have nudged the PCIe link, the system hung and wouldn't boot off the NVMe drive until I re-checked the ribbon connectors.
The PiBow case doesn't support this as there isn't enough length on the PCIe ribbon cable to go around the PiBow. I was tempted to dremel the case but instead I used it on another 5 and will look for a protective case.
Definitely worth the upgrade if you want the reliability and performance (not tested) but I run a number of Pi4s on USB connected M.2 drives.”
“It's about as easy to setup as I was hoping it would be, and it works like a charm with my new 8GB Pi 5. I particularly love that it attaches below the Pi, as this leaves easy access to GPIO pins and everything else, and keeps the combined package from becoming significantly larger than the bare Pi.”
“NVMe Base is not designed for Argon NEO 5 BRED Case for Raspberry Pi 5 × 1, but it's a great step forward to use Raspberry Pis on desktop, having always enough disk space on SSDs”
