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Rick from NWI
Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2025
perfect for raspberry pi 5 to make a multi-partition SSD 2280 drive.
DeAnza
Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2025
Booted first try with a Samsung 990 EVO Plus 1TB. Had trouble with other hats. LED indicator would have been helpful if I had problems, which I did not. Other HATs did not have LEDs and royally sucked for troubleshooting and never worked anyways.10/10 would recommend.
KC
Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2025
Great little hat., works and fits well and came with the needed info to update the Pi firmware to use the m2 as a boot drive.
WCat
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2025
I own both the official Raspberry Pi PCIe Hat and this one from iUniker. To me, this model has three advantages over the official hat, and one minor downside:Advantages:(1) It can take any size NVME drive up to the most common 2280 length, while the official hat is restricted to 2230 and 2242 lengths only. It's much easier for me to swap between different builds because I have more of these longer 2280 models, which are also often a bit cheaper and more plentiful than the smaller sizes.(2) Even though this iUniker hat accommodates the longer NVME drives, it covers a bit less overall surface area than the official one. It also has some cutouts that allow more air from the fan to circulate around and upwards.(3) Additionally, there is easier access to the 40-pin connector on the Pi 5, since the board has a cutout around that area. So there is no need to buy extension pins, which are not included with the official hat.Downside:The only negative I have found is that the board extends further in the direction towards the USB and Ethernet connectors. This can cause interference with various cases. I usually use my Pi 5's with just a base, or mounted on something else, so this isn't a big deal for me, but you may want to consider it if you intend to put it into one of the standard cases. It should be easy enough to modify one with a Dremel tool or knife.Photos:As you can see in the photos, I own both models, and took these side-by-side shots so that you can compare them visually. Note that I happened to have swapped the official Raspberry Pi 256 GB 2230 NVME with another ORICO 2230 drive. I programmed the same image into both of them, so that doesn't matter. I bought the official NVME and hat from Canakit as part of a complete Pi 5 package.Here is the Amazon listing for the 256 GB ORICO drive shown in my photos. I bought it at the same time I bought this iUniker hat. This drive is a few dollars cheaper than the official Raspberry Pi NVME, but the official one does come pre-programmed. It includes a cute little metal heat dissipation plate that adds some bling to it: https://a.co/d/fDcfx7dYou can also now use the Raspberry Pi SD Card Copier program included in the newer Raspbian builds to clone your SD card image to the NVME. It's located in Accessories/SD Card Copier. Just select the SD card as the "From" device, and the NVME as the "To" target.After cloning to the NVME, see the included iUniker foldout sheet that shows you the simple edits you need to use to set the bootloader to boot from the NVME instead of the SD card. Power down, remove the SD card, reboot and you're up and running on the NVME card.
Dom Turula
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2025
Did not work, spent money on extra SSD, but that did not work either. Had to buy another a different Hat to work
Rene
Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2025
I have it hosting a 1TB stick. It’s fast!I only wish i could house it below the board…maybe it can with the right cars…?
Sean Durrant
Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2025
I bought this item for use with an RPI4. I found that because of the length of the board, it will not fit most Raspberry Pi cases. The issue is that the board runs the entire length of the RPi, so there is not room to get the case onto the Pi. It does not even fit into the official Pi4 case. I cannot comment on how good the board is as I was not able to try it out. I think the problem is that the manufacturer tried to make the board compatible with all versions (form factors) of the M.2 drive, and did not factor in the length issue for the longer variant. My suggestion is that the manufacturer drop the longer version, and re-do this board to support only the 2230, and 2242 variants.
Serebro
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2024
I ordered this to move my PiOS off the SD card for faster OS speed, with the plan to turn my Pi into a micro-sized file server.Installation was easy, but then the trouble began as I installed an old WD SN770 onto it, and it wouldn't run. Further research led me to find that WD drives don't work well with RPi in general, but I had an Adata drive that I did manage to get working later that afternoon, so it's all good now. Now I've got a box about 4" tall with a USB external drive for mass storage and the Pi's NVMe making sure files are transferring across the network at a decent speed.And of course, the miniature size is extremely portable, which is great for my lifestyle--my partner's a traveling industrial construction worker, so we relocate to a new job site on average every 2-6 months, packing everything we need to live/work/play in a pickup...which makes small-scale items like this or items that can be folded down to smaller sizes essential. Building out this Pi server has let me cut down our NAS to about 1/8 of its previous volume--it cost a bit to buy a new larger 2.5" drive that I put into an external enclosure, but it's been so worth it!
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