“I was torn between a 4 and a 5. The product once working is definitely a 5 in my opinion but the supporting documentation for the 512GB version was only a 3 at best. What should have been an hour's job at most, ended up taking most of the afternoon to the point I was thinking I had a defective unit. Now I am not a Linux expert but know enough to get by as a rule, but this was my first SSD installation.
In summary, the wiring and installation instructions were fine but that was it. The blog intimated to me that it was plug and play and there was no setting up as it would just appear as a drive. Well it didn't, as the disk was blank (unformatted with no partition) as it turned out. Just before I was about to dismantle and organise a return of the HAT, I found the command that gave me hope - lsblk, which showed that there was disk there, but was invisible to the Desktop applications. After that it was a case of installing GParted and running that to format and create a partition.
I noticed that at least one other person had issues with setting up, which did sort of give me hope to persevere.”
“You really notice the speed difference, easy to configure and installation instructions are easy to follow. With this drive, becomes a real powerhouse for the size. Amazing, highly recommend.”
“These are great, didn't have to image anything first. Just attached to a new Pi5 and it does it all from the Internet. Couldn't be simpler. Speed after was more that satisfactory after too.”
