GeeekPi N04 M.2 NVMe to PCIe Adapter for Raspberry Pi 5

Add nvme storage to Rpi 4 or 5 for increased speed, storage space, and performance. Super-easy setup in Raspberry OS. This board plus a nvme stick gave me a 1TB machine, and now it boots in a couple seconds. It's a great upgrade for rPi if you're still using SD card. Once it boots, rPi can clone the SD into the nvme. No need for any other adapter. Instructions on the rPi site are great.

Great product, easy setup, and performs as expected, and I've reached nearly the maximum speed for NVMe Gen 3x1, which is the limit of the RPi5. Test was performed with a Micron 2500 1TB NVMe Gen 4x4 (PN: MTFDKBA1T0QGN-1BN1AABGA) I'll update if anything fails.

On a Pi 5, you can use one device at the full 5000 speed -- pci, or USB. Gigabit ethernet is separate. Real-world data storage transfer is about 750MB/s on a Pi 5 using this adapter in my world, with the pci set to run the more risky pci 3 speed. But then, all USB ports are capped at 480 - no USB speed for the storage. That said, the ethernet port and an Nvme on this adapter managed to saturate gigabit ethernet, and then still have storage bandwidth to and from the processor that is much faster. This is a good device. It came with two ribbon cables, but both were short. When I added a POE+ hat to the Pi, the ribbon cable would not reach, so I had to order the longer cable kit. It would be nice if this kit came with two cables - one short, and one a bit longer for hats that could also be used as a spare. It is working great.

Perfect fit, easy to setup and I’ve had no issues. I’ve continuously used the drive attached to this hat for months without issue.

Wouldn’t work at first. I tried following the guides with putting parameters in the config.txt. Nothing would ever show and it wouldn’t light up. I removed all the config lines I tried and it worked the first time without them. It’s been smooth ever since!

Been running this non stop for a year now as a back up storage for my pc. I think the limitations of the speed that some people mention is not that hats fault it’s a single pci lane with a 1gig Ethernet that’s really the pi’s fault not the hat you’re always going to be limited. Came with clear instructions on what to enter in the console for the pi to notice the ssd. If you have trouble just ask chatgpt it helped me out with the commands to copy the os on the sd card to the ssd had everything running in less then 5 minutes

I wanted to move to an NVMe drive for a little web server I'm running on my Pi5 and this one fits perfectly and works equally as well. So far, I've had no problems and I'd say for the price, it can't really be beat! Installation was super easy of course as it just snaps right onto the top of the Pi.

Installed, loaded an OS from the network to the attached 512 GB NVME M.2 SSD and was up and running in 15 minutes or less. Worked as advertised.

Works well with 80mm cable to allow for tower cooler. Seeing speeds of 600+. Very happy

Item (an m.2 add on hat for raspberry pi) worked immediately on my RPi 5. Multi-boot several distros using PINN. Works great. Recommend to anyone that wants to add nvme support to their Pi.

Works as expected. But you need external machine with usb to nvme converter to re image os. If I tried boot Pi5 from sd card try to image directly from within pi. This way is not yet working as nvme is not shown as drive in pi imager. May be it works in future. Also I have observed when I set boot order as sd->nvme->usb. It misses boot for first time. Second time it boots from nvme.this adds to the boot time. Once booted it is very fast.so yes it works as per expectation but setup could be easier. I used wd blue 512gb ssd to flash ubuntu.

Works fine.

Works great. Didn't test the speed though. All the tools available.