“Dinged 1 start since this is support PCI 2 speeds only and not PCI 3 like the single nvme base. Tho its mentioned in the description it was not supper apparent at all that this card would not support PCI 3 speeds.”
“Got it working and booting from NVMe very fast once set on v3 8n config.txt
Make sure you get the right eeprom.
Mine is working awesome with the AI kit module in slot B.
Just wish I had a case to put it all in... Dont like my boards exposed.”
“The only problem I have with this is that you can't boot from it. If you look and read before you buy (which I didn't) they tell you as much in the description.”
Ahoy Paul
It should now be possible to boot from drives connected via NVMe Duo, if you update your firmware to the most recent version :)
https://learn.pimoroni.com/article/getting-started-with-nvme-base-duo
“Looks/feeds like it is good quality. Currently I only have one spare NVME card to plug into it, but I will buy another soon. I wanted this Duo adapter to be able to have a backup copy of my files on the second NVME, and this was a more frugal/tidier/efficient solution than buying a second RPi and linking them over network cable. Main things to be aware, if you are not already, the NVME disks cannot be used as the boot disk, also the speed is limited to gen2, but in both cases I was ok with these limitations. I would have preferred an overhead hat than a base. So far my usage has not been very stressful on the single disk, so I have not noticed any problems with heat, and hopefully this will continue when I add the second disk.”
