N10 Tiny PCIe M.2 Key-M NVMe SSD PCIe Peripheral Board for Raspberry Pi 5, Support M.2 NVMe SSD 2230 2242

Excellent

Très utile et facon très compacte aussi.

Had a problem with the first cable but I swapped it with the other one that came with it and everything worked perfectly. Would be 5 stars otherwise.

I am digging this tiny nvme hat. Was easy to assemble. Only gripe I have is with the screw that secures the nvme as my hands shake. I wish I could get another one of these. I got this because of airflow worries with the pi as I do with all builds I do. Currently having a friend printing a different case for my raspberry pi 5. It came with extra hardware too. The nvme achieves 296 MB/s write and 415.9 MB/s read in PIOS with a score of 39,736 but your milage may differ. PIOS boots very quickly and operation in PIOS is smooth with no bottleneck. Fit was quick and easy and secured nicely. Quality is great almost as if it were part of the pi board. I should also note that I did not have to edit the boot on PIOS. I just used the raspberry PI Imager and selected pi 5 and PIOS then my nvme from USB and formatted it. Once it was done I attached it to this hat then booted right up nice and quickly. The install didn't detect my wifi at first in setup so I skipped but was able to connect from PIOS desktop.

Just what I needed for my PI 5. Small and easy install.

It functions exactly as advertised. Some other small form factor hats obstruct some of the GPIO pins, or even depend on having an official active cooler installed. This one does neither. I use this in conjunction with the ultra thin ICE Tower which the provided FPCs are long enough to accommodate, although you will need 30mm standoffs to clear the extra cooler height. Smaller standoffs can also be stacked together. But they do work fine with the official active cooler. Mounting is about as straightforward as it gets. 2 holes, 2 standoffs. Using at pcie gen 3, hdparm gives an average read speed of 745.161MB/s, which is very respectable for such a small hat. The one minor issue I could take was one of the provided FPCs being DOA. It's bound to happen since they're so fragile, and they provide a backup just in case, which is working great. It's a great little hat that does it's job and keeps airflow obstruction to a minimum.