HatDrive! Nano for Raspberry Pi 5 Reviews

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“Super speed your pi with a NVME drive and this pi hat. For the price this is a bargain. Recommended!”

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Posted 11 months ago

“Great piece of kit, I was running my RPi5 from an external USB connected SSD, but wanted an all in one fix. Being a complete newbie when it comes to coding, I expected to have to go back to an SD card to boot from before using the copy software. I installed the Hat Drive Nano along with and Integral 2242 256Gb NvMe, and switched on. The Pi booted from my existing USB drive and I was then able to use copy to transfer to the NvMe. Removed the USB drive and switched back on to instantly boot with the NvMe. Great result.”

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Posted 11 months ago

“Great Name adapter for 2230, 2242 boards. Added attraction is its compatible with the Pi case and cooler. gene capable.”

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Posted 11 months ago

“Drive hat is as expected, but the lacking of instructions, that I am sure will appear soon, was disappointing. When you do get around to publishing them, can you include the bit that Reaspberrypi OS supports this natively, but Ubuntu (and others) will need additional step of booting to rasberrypi os and updating the firmware. This, I am sure, wont be a problem in the future, but as always with bleading edge tech, needs time get everything in place to "just work". The case fan and lids no longer fit, as expected, but then where to put the backup battery that keeps the clock ticking? I stuck mine with sticky velcro pads to the outside of the case. Not pretty, but works. Thank you for a neat solution, keep them coming.”

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Posted 11 months ago

“Very small! Fits perfectly in to the official Pi 5 case, but you’ll have to swap out the official fan as this won’t fit. If you need a fan, opt for the one listed on the info for the HAT, and you’ll have an amazing Pi! Worked first time and simple to install.”

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Posted 11 months ago

“The HatDrive! Nano is just all kinds of awesome. It's relatively idiot proof and when it comes to installing your OS, just boot it up from an SD card, run rpi-imager and it will allow you to flash your choice of OS onto your sparkly new NVMe SSD, power it all down, remove the SD card & it should autodetect & boot straight into the SSD . Rebooting it will take a couple of seconds, rather than a minute on my old SD card. The only gotcha is that if you just have a standard Pi5 case (with the cooler fan in the lid) you will have to buy an Active Cooler as well. Click out the fan & shroud from your case & fit the Active Cooler before you install the HatDrive! Nano. You'll need to slot in & attach the SSD before you attach the ribbon cable, as it screws in from underneath. Lastly, screw it into the pillar supports. Search online and you'll find loads of guides, TomsHardware was very useful to me. I enabled the Gen3 setting in raspi-config, but my SSD was a Samsung Gen4 that I got cheap from Amazon. Please believe me when I say that the speed increase is astronomical. Words fail me on just how good it is. When you buy one, you'll regret not getting it sooner. NOTE: the bottom screws that hold the support pillars in place need to be slotted through the holes in the bottom of the case, as they are just too long to fit only on the Pi5 board itself.”

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Posted 11 months ago