Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+ Reviews

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“I'm not a whizzkid when it comes to performing surgery on computers, so I was a little bit cautious about fitting the M.2 hat. The instructions (online, not printed) were very good, but not perfect: one of the instructions relating to a step to follow in raspi-config simply can't be found; perhaps the documentation is out of date? I did everything I could, and it seemed I was successful. However, permanent drives don't show up on the Raspbian desktop, so how to make use of the funky new drive? Browse as I might, I couldn't 'find' the drive in my file structure. In the end, I decided to just ditch my micro-SD so that everything would be on the M.2 drive. This was readily achieved with the imager, and now I have a phenomenally fast-booting Pi with plenty of storage. It feels like a proper desktop PC. If you choose to buy this hat, order some M2.5 hex brass spacer/standoffs separately, as the included plastic ones aren't worth using. Everything else was of very high quality. Delivery was prompt and reasonably priced.”

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Posted 3 weeks ago

“This was fantastic. It fit perfectly. Was easy to understand how to put it together!”

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Posted 2 months ago

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Posted 3 months ago

“Failed to operate. I first intended to use the M2 top hat which failed to operate at all - no power led on & seemingly dead on arrival. But with the bottom hat, using the same connecting cable, with the same nvme ssd drive, it fired up immediately and booted into ubuntu. This was disappointing to say the least. Is it possible to have a replacement M2 top hat mailed to me ? thank you. James Smith axiomdog@gmail.com”

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Posted 3 months ago

“This thing is perfect”

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Posted 3 months ago

“Easy to attach and worked out-of-the-box with a newly-bought Pi 5. I combined this with an NVMe SSD drive and was able to boot the Pi from it directly (after burning raspbian to the drive) without needing to make any firmware changes. Note that using the included 18mm GPIO stacking header and 14mm spacers (which make it fit nicely above the active cooler's fan with a gap for air) ends up with the pins flush with the top of the pass-through connectors on the board — you can see this in the photo of it assembled in the case. This is fine (tidy, even) if you just want a Pi with an M.2 connector, but means the pins are no-longer accessible, so buy a longer GPIO stacking header if you want to use this and also connect components.”

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Posted 4 months ago

“I have looked around for alternative versions and concluded that this one, with the screen/camera cut out works the best. It also has a sufficient air gap if you have used the official Raspberry Pi Active cooler to ensure air flow around the Pi5. Works well.”

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Posted 5 months ago