“A great Pi case with some surprising qa issues.
First off, the case itself is great: provides good passive cooling coupled with good active cooling. The built-in nvne slot has its own heat sink as well.
However, my unit had the following issues:
- two of the provided screws were too short and couldn't be used. I had to order a longer set separately just to put the thing together. This is apparently nothing new: https://forum.argon40.com/t/argon-neo-5m-2-nvme/2591/5
- not enough thermal pads provided. Only 2 were included with the case, despite other rpi5 heatsinks coming with at least 4. Even the included instruction booklet has 4 - 5 thermal pads on its how-to image. This reeks of a cost-cutting effort.”
“This is a great case, my only quibble is that the ribbon cable to go from the Pi to the NVMe interface board is quite short and fiddly to get right, it took me a couple of attempts beore the NVMe drive I was using was recognised but when it was it [a Samsung 980 Pro] was amazingly fast. Overall, very pleased.”
“Good case if a little fiddly diddly to put together. If you have fingers like needles no problems but my fat sausages struggled. Also found one screw slightly too short to grip despite very carefully ensuring alignment of parts.”
“Very good quality case that is easy to assemble and looks great. The SSD was was easy to fit and was instantly recognisable by the operating system once reformatted to ext4.
This was required as mine had previously been used in a windows laptop and therefore was formatted in NTFS.
I have powered it with the standard 27w raspberry pi psu without problem. Whilst the instructions are a bit thin, there is plenty of advice on the web including the pi hut.
I have not yet tried to boot from the ssd, due to time constraints, but I am sure that it will work.
The case is well worth the extra over the non. SSD case and gives extra flexibility.”
“Really well made, with quality materials. Was a big improvement over the other case I was using, with lower temperatures. So much so that the fan hasn't kicked in once yet. The nvme base works flawlessly with PCI express gen3 speeds with a Lexar NM790 2TB.”
