“The product is great. But I will never buy anything again at Pi Hut. I had to pay 30 euros custom fees. That should be warned better on the website when ordering.”
“I bought the 512GB version, and I'm using it as the only storage on my Pi (no memory card). I was able to set it up easily, and didn't need any firmware updates or configuration changes (on a newly bought Pi 5) to have it recognised as a boot volume (by default, the latest firmware will look for an SD card first, then NVMe, then USB. Once running, this can also be changed with raspi-config to boot from NVMe first).
Note that these drives ship blank (a good thing!) and if you want to use it as a the boot media you can format it either through the Pi (which will require having an SD card to boot the Pi from while you download + burn the image to this drive), or using an NVMe enclosure to burn an image from another computer (sadly Pi Hut doesn't currently sell any, but I found the SABRENT M.2 NVMe Enclosure worked well for this — if you need an enclosure, note that these drives are "M-key", not "B-key" - different enclosures have different compatibilities).
I tested the performance of the drive using Raspbian's bundled diagnostics tool and it exceeds the advertised values (but note this is being run on a brand new card! Performance will degrade with use). On my 512GB card, it reported a random 4kB read speed of 112k IOPS (447MB/s) - twice as good as the 50k IOPS advertised; a random 4kB write speed of 96k IOPS (382MB/s) - slightly better than the 90k IOPS advertised; a sequential write speed of 400MB/s; and a sequential read speed of 458MB/s. In use, this means the Pi is not slowed down by disk access in any noticeable way. When using the 512GB drive as a boot device with a standard Raspbian installation, 503GB (469GiB) is allocated to the filesystem, and ~10GB of this is used by the OS + default applications in the standard installation without "recommended" software.”
“The SSD arrived in an amazing fast time and since I had already purchased the SSD Board on a previous occasion from Pi Hut, I had this installed in less than a minute. I am a very a very ahhpy customer with a blistering fast Raspbery pi 8GB box. Thanks”
