“pretty straight forward, got fitted, nicely, no delays no thinking required, just the gpio pins idea is completely missing here, this could be done better OOB way without workarounds”
“It works well - and installation was pretty easy. My only reservation was that it wasn't clear to me when I bought it that it was not fully compatible with the standard Raspberry Pi case, with its fan. First, the HAT sticks up into the space where the fan goes, so you can't use the fan. And second, you can't therefore close the case. And third, at least for me, the Pi + HAT assembly fits awkwardly into the base of the case. So I had to buy another minimal case (the layer case), and the active cooker, to finish the upgrade. Having done so, it's a nice setup.”
“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of the instructions relating to a step to follow in raspi-config simply can't be found; perhaps the documentation is out of date?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.”
