GeeekPiN04 M.2 M-Key NVMe SSD Shield for Raspberry Pi 5, M.2 2280 PCIe to NVMe SSD Shield Pip PCIe Peripheral Board Top for Raspberry Pi 5 4GB/8GB (SSD and Pi5 Board are not Included)

Works with 1TB crucial p310 NVMe M.2 SSD

Easy to fit and use. A little technical to switch over to booting from nvme, but once done, it's a breeze.

This is a very good product and works exactly as described. However be careful with your SSD. I thought the board was faulty as had zero lights or activity but after swapping out multi ssd it finally sprung to life and was recognised. Western digital drives didn’t work. In the end a 1tb firecuda one did and you will know because the led on the board starts to show activity on a pi boot. It would be good to see a compatibility list for known drives with the instructions and possible ways to show that hardware does indeed exist without a drive connected.

Brilliant!! Picked up a 1TB Ediloca EN600 Pro NVME from Prime sale day for £40! popped it into this adapter and followed the instructions. I couldn't see it at first in File Manager despite following the instructions and reboot had no effect. I could see it as a device but wasn't able to access the drive suspected because it wasn't in the right file format for a Pi. I followed instructions on the Web to open up the Pi imaging tool via Accessories and installed a fresh copy of Buster onto it. Edited the EEProm configuration file to boot from the NVME and removed the SD card. Rebooted and it's working a treat!!

You will probably need to boot your pi from an sd card before using this (mine would not boot at all while there was an ssd in the shield). Once booted from SD card, "sudo update" and then "sudo rpi-eeprom-update -a", reboot and the shield should be recognised, shutdown, remove sd and reboot from the ssd. Hope this helps!You will lose access to gpio pins 1 - 10 and will not be able to fit any other hat with this shield in place (this matters a lot to me) but at least you can easily change the ssd (I swap mine frequently to use different OS, versions and development systems)

As described and delivered promptly

M.2 SSD hat is a must-buy for raspberry pi. I’m very happy with this upgrade.

The GeeekPi N04 M.2 M-Key NVMe SSD Shield is a great addition to the Raspberry Pi 5 to enable booting from M.2 while it works. I may have gotten unlucky however after around 3 months of ownership mine no longer works with any of my Pi 5's.Overall when I initially purchased and used it, it worked very well, easy to install and setup, it's easy to find a case that works with it and you can even fit a slim NVMe heatsink. It was a noticeable improvement over booting from SD however this soon started to go downhill.I've exclusively used this with Crucial NVMe's which generally have great compatibility with M.2 enclosures and hats however within a few weeks issues arose, from IO errors to suddenly just stop working.I may have just gotten unlucky however I would still recommend this hat for general use as it's price and performance justifies it, I just hope the next one lasts a little longer!