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I've been running a prototype unit for a few months, and it's a game changer. It makes the Raspberry Pi feel as fast as one of my development VMs on AWS. What

I've been running a prototype unit for a few months, and it's a game changer. It makes the Raspberry Pi feel as fast as one of my development VMs on AWS. What sets this Raspberry Pi-sourced hat apart from other units like those from WaveShare is its compatibility with drives. I didn't need to check which controller my drive had—it just worked. Since the Pi 4, Raspberry Pi has claimed it can truly be your main computer. With the Pi 5 and the M.2 hat, this claim finally holds credibility—the quality of life and speed improvements are that good.

JonChesterfield 2y ago
Makes sense. I remember an early gen atom was horrendous on hard drive and totally usable on an early ssd. Useful to hear compatibility is good on this one.
distances 2y ago
The hat is quite wide compared to some other NVME hats. Do you see any chance of some 3rd party creating a passive cooling case that would still fit this one inside? In my mind NVME + passive cooling would be such a perfect combo for Raspberry Pi to make it a tiny, silent and durable computer you could just hide somewhere out of sight.