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Add An M.2 SSD To The Raspberry Pi 4 - GeekPi X862 M.2 Adapter Review

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In this video, we take a look at the GeekPi/GeekWorm Raspberry Pi 4 X862 M.2 NGFF SATA SSD adapter board.
This will allow you to easily add an m.2 SSD to your Raspberry Pi 4 This works with Berry Boot so you can run the whole raspberry pi 4 operating system from the SSD so you can achieve faster app loading, File transfer and boot times!
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@FuZZbaLLbee 4 года назад

The guy from explaining computers made something like this with parts available to him. I think this is what he wanted

@itainelken 4 года назад

I was just thinking that

@SANTINIIO 4 года назад

I was thinking the same thing. I think it's harder for him to get parts like this since he isn't in the US and with shipping as crazy as it is right now.

@01bigtrev 4 года назад

Ha ha I just sent the link to this video to his video on this saying exactly the same thing

@TheReaL35 4 года назад

Same. He spent a lot of time trying to jury rig what this adapter accomplished

@todddelozier8172 4 года назад

We all watch the same channels haha

@darkambience 4 года назад

if only someone would create a fan-less aluminium case that fits all this inside.

@gertjanvandermeij4265 4 года назад

You don't have an 3D printer ? It's 2020 ! Make it yourself !

@si12volt1 4 года назад

@@gertjanvandermeij4265 aluminium case

@todddelozier8172 4 года назад

@@gertjanvandermeij4265 can you 3D print with aluminum?

@motomd19 4 года назад

@@gertjanvandermeij4265 a 3d printer is a pretty expensive ordeal if you dont use it often enough to justify to cost. not everyone has enough money to just go out and buy one.

@itxbuilder989 4 года назад

Geekworm do a case and a top hat with fan and power switch which supports this board too. So it all fits into a nice small unit. They are selling everything on Amazon.

@OllieLK 4 года назад

Great view as ever! You should totally check this out with the Windows arm build for raspberry pi.

@legin3753 4 года назад

Would like to see that 👍

@OllieLK 4 года назад

Lol just realized I typed view instead of video sorry ETA 🤣

@amshermansen 4 года назад

ETA - You really gotta stop saying "M.2 SSD". It's either M.2 SATA or M.2 PCI-E (Also known as NVME) This is a - VERY - important distinction as this adaptor will NOT run NVME's at all, and people can buy the wrong SSDs. M.2 is just the form factor they use (the socket), SATA and PCI-E are very different.

@jothain 4 года назад

This message should be pinned. I though that this is NVME compatible and hence is actually complete waste. Well I think it still is, but anyway.

@garapueto96 4 года назад

Ty I kept asking this through the whole video until the close-up of the label said SATA III so that's when I knew which one.

@moe4b 4 года назад

@@satrrap what's the point of using an NVME drive on a raspberry pi, this adapter interfaces through USB 3.0, that's 5GBits/Second, that's not even enough to saturate the SATA III speeds.

@moe4b 4 года назад

@@satrrap yeah, that's reasonable

@giancarlorivera9114 3 года назад

Would you say NVMe is better than SATA, I see that the write speeds are better but does that really matter for someone who is going to be using it the way it's demonstrated here?

@digitalmediafan 3 года назад

Very nice. There seem to be quite a few add ons or cases now for an M.2. The Argon seems to be the best imo as shown on explaining computers

@2be0ne 4 года назад

Question: Is the adapter usb only mode or does it go as UAS (USB Attached SCSI)? There is a big diffrence in speed as i have heard.

@GOUKOJIN 4 года назад

Now all that's left is to get a casing for that raspberry pi 4 setup.

@soundmannate2000 4 года назад

Can you do a video showing us gaming performance with RetroPie on this M.2 adapter?

@vacoff2717 4 года назад

It doesnt affect the performance i thing

@will3641 4 года назад

Won't make any or little improvement. Maybe just everything load a bit faster.

@Zoyx 4 года назад

Reiterate what others have said. It'll improve load times. Once in-game, performance will be identical.

@pali3329 4 года назад

Disregard all the above, performance will be better, even in game, there will be less stuttering. You can actually watch the opposite, trying gaming with an sd card on a regular computer and compare it to normal ssd powered gaming computers.

@Zoyx 4 года назад

@@pali3329 - You are explaining cache-ing. Some games continue to load content into RAM after you start playing. Once a game is done cache-ing, it runs fine. If a game has load screens, those breaks in the game will be shorter with faster storage.

@Argent_99 4 года назад

I used the previous iteration of this board with my two pi 3b’s and they’ve worked flawlessly for a year now. Oh, and mine are powered by the PoE hat, to boot.

@Beyondesp 4 года назад

Any advantage to doing this instead of just a regular 2.5" ssd to usb adapter ? Besides this being a little neater?

@ETAPRIME 4 года назад

It really come down to keeping it neatly packaged.

@jothain 4 года назад

Absolutely not. Performance is actually really, really bad. Stick to sata drive always when possible.

@kev7345 4 года назад

@@adventureoflinkmk2 yeah i think he's looking for that C shaped USB3 adapter that goes underneath the board

@onnozweers 4 года назад

@Beyondesp I have just that, an SSD of 2TB connected with a Sata to USB3 adapter. `hdparm -t /dev/sda` returns 242.86 MB/sec. I'm happy.

@cednats 4 года назад

The only advantage I can see is being neater. This is much slower than just plugging a ssd into the usb 3 port. I use an old 2.5" ssd connected straight to the usb 3 and my speeds are sequential: 251095, random write: 19366, and random speed of 9266.

@thegamerboy1000 4 года назад

I know you thank us for watching, but I want to say thank you for putting in the hard work making such awesome videos!

@FRESNEL_COOKING_SOLAR_OVENS24 2 года назад

This video is a failure. That board its a non-sense. Does not have its own power input. Its wrong to drain power from your raspberry.

@thegamerboy1000 2 года назад

@@FRESNEL_COOKING_SOLAR_OVENS24 this board doesn’t need a separate power adapter as the USB 3 port it’s plugged into is enough.

@FRESNEL_COOKING_SOLAR_OVENS24 2 года назад

@@thegamerboy1000 thats the problem. It takes power from raspberry. That's the thing I hate. I want to power everything individually, which is safer. I want every board and hat with its own power.

@thegamerboy1000 2 года назад

@@FRESNEL_COOKING_SOLAR_OVENS24 whatever man you do you but this hat won’t even affect the pi4 performance wise as it simply draws very little power since it only runs a ssd on it. You can power and run ssd’s with a simple SATA III connector to USB 3 and it’ll run as long as the port can provide the necessary voltage for it, in this case I think it’s only like 5V or something to power a SATA ssd which isn’t a lot.

@ciaduck 4 года назад

Neat. All-be-it expensive solution. They also have some for USB 3.0 -> SATA for 2.5" drives, but I couldn't justify that when you could buy a cable and jerry rig something for < $10. That being said, it's good to have the option for nicer looking things in this space.

@NOPerative 4 года назад

You need to do some of that rasPI game testing with this build. You know you want to. Good vid.

@holski77 4 года назад

Oh man, send this to Explaining Computers Stat!!!!!

@aderbalnunesm 4 года назад

One thing that could come in the RPi5: emmc module for interchangeable flash memory. Then they would sell the modules separately. Just like Rock Pi.

@kuhluhOG 4 года назад

or Pine64

@liamness 4 года назад

microSD express would allow support of the NVME protocol - that seems like it would be a good enough solution, once the Pi 5 rolls around?

@aderbalnunesm 4 года назад

@@liamness it can be a solution too. But maybe it's more expensive

@liamness 4 года назад

@@aderbalnunesm Probably just a different controller for the sd card. An emmc module would be a whole extra component, which would certainly add extra expense.

@jothain 4 года назад

I don't know about that. eMMC's are piss poor devices to begin with. I'd rather have those GPIO's extended than have option for such a poor media. USB imo is good solution for storage. Though I'd like to see one port aligned above the board to use some small nano devices that wouldn't be able to yank out from cases when it's in use.

@danw1955 4 года назад

I thought Geekworm quit selling these since the speed of the M.2 drive was wasted on the USB 3 interface? For all practical purposes, the X825-C6 SATA shield kit with the case and power supply is a better deal. Just got one last week and it works fantastic! Coupled with a 1 TB. Crucial SSD, it boots and runs extremely fast, and no more worries about glitchy micro-SD cards. 28 bucks and change for the kit and $99 for the 1 TB. SSD. That plus $61 for a RPi 4B 4 gb., and you have a cheap fast computer for around $200 (provided you have a spare monitor or 2 and a keyboard and mouse lying around, like I do)😁

@xilliman 2 года назад

im using this setup with the geekworm case for my minecraft server. it’s awesome.

@crocodiledondii 3 года назад

Good review. I have to watch your reviews a few times cos you talk so fast and zip right thru everything in "record time"... 😅 But I enjoy them all. Never heard of BerryBoot before... Thanx

@fordi_steve 4 года назад

Another great video ETA! I have found that an external case for a SSD/M.2 does work a little better because i can plug into another device for fast backups. This is one area that the Pi World could improve on unless I'm missing something, which is probably the case lol..

@mannkeithc 4 года назад

Thank you for an excellent video. Geekworm who make the m.2 ssd adaptor in your video, also make a neat fan cooled metal case with power switch to house the whole Raspberry pi 4 + m.2 ssd adapter assembly. Case is Geekworm Raspberry Pi X857. There are two flavours of m.2 ssd adaptor, X862 m.2 sata ssd and X872 M.2 NVMe SSD. Read & Write performance for both adaptors with be roughly than same, as USB3 data transfer speeds will be the limiting factor. I have just ordered a case, m.2 ssd adaptor and m.2 ssd for my 8GB Raspberry Pi 4.

@NaeMuckle 4 года назад

Would actually love if the pi foundation released a pi built into a keyboard case with hard drive and m.2 support. So it's a proper all in one machine like the machines it copied.

@skinshowcase7998 3 года назад

They have! Pi 400

@NaeMuckle 3 года назад

@@skinshowcase7998 thank you. I actually said this pre pi400 release. They obviously read my comment 🤣

@pfiltz 3 года назад

Thanks for your video's. Especially WOR videos. I'm new to the PI world, and will be attempting to run windows from my new PI 4 when it arrives.

@deemacgee 4 года назад

Oh, perfect timing, I've been looking for something like this for the last few days! Now if only I could find a case to fit all this into...

@KameraShy 4 года назад

Same day as posted and Amazon ways M.2 board "Currently Unavailable" WTF?!?

@alanwatson1867 3 года назад

Go Lazada - they have B slot and NVMe M slot (x862and x872). The USB Connectors are dodgy so get a USB3 to USB 3 male to male lead - has never given me a problem

@itxbuilder989 4 года назад

Are you planning taking a look at the X872 version which supports nvme m.2 drives. Would be interesting to see the speed gains from using the nvme version.

@pavan13 4 года назад

This thing is really awesome 😍

@pavan13 4 года назад

@Jay Dee You better directly email ETA prime about your beast m2

@Hotstuff5743 4 года назад

That's so cool that u can fire up an M.2 to the bottom of this puppy. I just last night finally got my LP Ice Tower from Seeed Studios after about 80-85 days in transit due to world events but something like this added to the bottom of my pi would be insane. Some of my friends laugh at me cuz i've got the Pi 4 as my daily driver while i save up to build a new PC after the one i had died after 18yrs. That is till they found out i've got my "Mini Beast" OC to 2ghz CPU with a 750mhz on the GPU and i found an option in my config that lets u increase or decrease the allotted memory for the GPU so i bumped mine up from 64mb to 500mb for now but if i had the 8gb Pi4 then i'd see how a full GB or 2 will work. Sad when my Pi 4 has pretty much better performance then my $2K MS Surface 3 that only has a 1.6gb atom chip in it, 4gb of DDR3 and it's max at 128gb internal & external but the PI's only limit really is it's USB Chip.

@kev7345 4 года назад

Excellent video, but i have always had issues with berry boot supporting a dual screen set up with my Pi 4

@philyrics6104 4 года назад

I'm thinking if i can use a m.2 to pcie adapter and connect a gpu. Is it possible? Edit: sorry i didn't see that it's output is from usb so that it's not possiblr

@TheEowli 4 года назад

even if it was running over pcie, finding drivers for the gpu would be a problem

@networkingdude 4 года назад

Not possible, doesnt work over usb like that.

@amshermansen 4 года назад

It's also not PCI but SATA*

@meemee1357 4 года назад

It doesn't work like that, but a raspberry pi does have pcie internally. I think it's used for the usb and ethernet, but people have successfully taken of the chip and soldered wires on to let you use regular pcie cards. I don't think gpus are supported though, but that's just due to drivers. How many people would use them?

@Yukeake 4 года назад

The adapter has two additional power supply ports (the barrel jack and the battery connector) - did you need to power one of these to get the SSD working, or did it draw enough power over USB3?

@Choralone422 4 года назад

He said in the video if you're using a good power source for the RPi it will be able to draw enough power via USB to power the adapter & M.2 SSD.

@Yukeake 4 года назад

@@Choralone422 Somehow I missed that. TYVM!

@yipinghuang1853 4 года назад

the twe additional power supply ports is only for some 2TB or more capacity SSDs, the power consumption is large and an external power supply is required

@mariopojoy 4 года назад

Good video!... The form factor is neat, it looks good on your desk and you could add the ICE TOWER on top for cool Overclocked Pi... but I've got almost double speed using an Inateck USB-SATA case with UASP support on a SSD. The same setup as Jeff Gerling's video.

@programmersoham 4 года назад

we can make very fast NAS with this thing

@jasongaunt 4 года назад

Perhaps for low latency yes, however the transfer speeds will be limited to the gigabit ethernet port, expect to see a maximum of 110~ MB/sec for transfers. (This is comparable to a 7200 RPM SATA drive)

@MrMuzza008 4 года назад

I've been thinking about getting one of these, but now I'm not so sure. While the speeds are better than sd card, they're not the fastest. I recently got a USB 3.0 uasp sata adapter cable and I'm getting 292571 KB/s for sequential write speed, random write speed of 22850 IOPS, and random read speed of 17504 IOPS.

@alanwatson1867 3 года назад

I am running another Pi 4 with a 240G Kingston 2.5 SSD - runs with a UAS compatible adapter and for Seq Writes i'm getting over 320,000 and randoms 4k of 75,000 and 67,000. Realistically the real rand speeds are 18900 and 16800 approx IOPS so for me is also a better option. Next week I will try a new 3rd Gen NVMe

@midu593 2 года назад

@@alanwatson1867 can you share the links to the adapter and the ssd ?

@michaelurig3887 2 года назад

Waiting for my parts to arrive, I just wish there was some cheap boxes to install it into

@williamhart4896 4 года назад

That adapter and a icecooler and a 8gb pi4b would make a livable budget desktop

@trix4rix 4 года назад

The only thing keeping me from daily driving a pi instead of a PC is drive speeds. If they added a native way to utilize the lower latency and faster speeds of nvme (1000+ MB/s) I would use a pi all day.

@RMPANDA964 4 года назад

The real game stopper from me on using Berry Boot is that it doesn’t support dual monitors on the raspberry pi

@stewartgallagher5804 3 года назад

Would love to see NAS transfer speeds

@savagezerox 4 года назад

you didnt link the eeprom flashing video like you insinuated with the berryboot video (1:50 - 2:13)

@unicaller1 4 года назад

I just use a cheap USB3 to SATA adapter and a $17 SSD off Amazon. With the Argon One case it is still pretty neat as all the cables come out the back.

@FalconWing1813 4 года назад

Nice addon to the Raspberry Pie .Maybe in the future they will have a faster way to connect SSD to the Pie.

@murdock94 4 года назад

Any there any 2.5" SSD cases out there for the Pi4?

@MrJaz8088 4 года назад

I have my M.2 in a $12 USB 3.0 Adaptor on very short cord, and get around 450 r/w, i really like the board, but it will not fit in any case, pity

@yurucampenjoyer9195 4 года назад

ExplainingComputers need to see this

@fvheel 9 месяцев назад

You can not use a Raspberry Pi touchscreen when using this board. The 180 degree connector uses the same usb3 connecor used for the screen. You have to use a connector that uses a different usb port.

@arthurdent8091 4 года назад

Great stuff. Just the solution I was looking for. Thanks

@povilasstaniulis9484 4 года назад

I see your IOPS are pretty low for an SSD. (1500/500 are target IOPS for a class A1 microSD card) Does your kernel have UASP support (check lsusb -t, driver should be listed as "uas") ? That should increase your SSD random I/O speed significantly.

@worldgate989 3 года назад

Probably do this later with my PS1-pi project. Trying to see what it will cost me total to reproduce it to sell here locally.

@haj4975 4 года назад

An egpu is everything left to add. Hope another adapter comes out.

@gormauslander 4 года назад

They should have included 3.1 if they were going to keep USB A ports. You're still only getting 5GiB/s. They could not only increase that, but make a slimmer board if they had USB-C for everything

@kennethbedford5105 Год назад

you should add a ssd heatsync and use thermal tape

@geopd Год назад

what about a cheap SSD enclosure and then connect to raspberry (Not aesthetic; but things get done cost effectively)

@JayzBeerz 3 года назад

i want to run my pi from an ssd and can't figure out how and watched many videos on it.

@thelastmotel 3 года назад

1) Put a micro sd card into your Pi 4 with raspberry os. Power it up. Make sure everything is updated (eeprom, firmware, etc.). 2) Change boot priority to USB. Power it off. 3) Remove the micro sd card. 4) Connect the SSD to a computer via USB, and write the image you want to be running on your Pi 4 onto it. Once written, eject the SSD. 5) Connect the SSD to your Pi 4 via USB. Power it on.

@Sup_D 3 года назад

I really wish that the next new model of "Raspberry Pi" would include a M.2 slot inbuilt, since its competition(?) "Rock Pi 4" already have a M.2 NVME slot (and i think its currently now possible to boot from it as well). I am not really sure which one is better, "Raspberry Pi 4" or "Rock Pi 4" as far as performance is concerned, but if "Raspberry Pi" next new model with M.2 and 8GB is released, it would really have a bigger impact on its competition.

@spokehedz 4 года назад

Ooh... This looks like a great way to speed up NAS and/or mediaservers. Cache drive for NAS would speed up a lot.

@Obloms 4 года назад

Performance isn't going to be better vs a decent SATA SSD drive. So that NIESPi 4 case with SATA adapter works really well (or any other SATA adapter for Pi).

@Richie016 4 года назад

SSD boot advantage for a rpi system, certainly is some smart tech stuff.😉

@jorgekutev9067 3 года назад

La idea es de tener ranuras en la placa donde conectar estos periféricos, no usar los puertos USB que igual son pocos. Y esto está solucionado en RockPi 4c

@pd-kerman 2 года назад

Awesome!!! So hmm in that case can we just expand the memories on such devices like pi4 2gb ?

@alexmontagnini 3 года назад

Please can you make a video tutorial on how to install OS on ssd m.2 without using sd cards thank you in advance.

@jamesat718 4 года назад

Why not using usb flash for the OS instead of spending money on the pcb board with a m2? Just wonder

@ArshaansEdits 4 года назад

hey, hello ETA I just thought if we can add a graphics card to the pi 4 using m.2 to PCIe x4 as we have m.2 there. Maybe windows 10 on pi4 with 3gigs of RAM and a graphics card may increase gaming performance. Try it once.

@miguelagueda3928 4 года назад

For what I can see in the video, the boards says it's a B key M.2, and only supports sata, so there's no PCIe support available

@ArshaansEdits 4 года назад

@J Fz thank you

@ArshaansEdits 4 года назад

@@miguelagueda3928 Thank you

@LeonRamkumar 4 года назад

The U-Shaped Adapter is all I need. Looking for it in the UK.

@yipinghuang1853 4 года назад

Sorry.

@LeonRamkumar 4 года назад

yiping huang , thanks?

@PrettyGreenMonk 3 года назад

Stick an ice tower on top of that and your sorted right..?

@dfbess 4 года назад

7:26 you said increase boot time.. it you mean decrease boot time..

@henkehojer 4 года назад

Would an Akasa GemPro case without the bottom plate fit nicely, perhaps after some minor Dremel adjustments?

@iblackfeathers 4 года назад

while these products are great, it’s too bad that you are forced to pick between a clean assembly for an ssd or a nice case like an argon one with heat dissipation and cable layout. there’s always a tradeoff somewhere.

@ozgur781sen 4 года назад

The problem I have is that with my m.2 enclosure and Samsung 950 pro 500gb the power draw is too much and the USB 3.0 of the Pi 4 cannot provide enough power to the drive.

@kavehvahedipour2089 4 года назад

You forgot to mention, how unreliable microsd cards are and how much more often writable an SSD is comparison.

@whatthefunction9140 4 года назад

Now we need a flirk case for this

@RhodeIslandWildlife 3 года назад

I performed this mod with the exact same gear and there are a couple issues not covered. Apparently USB 3 will interfere with your USB wireless keyboard and mouse. (Google Mouse/keyboard freeze Raspberry Pi 4) You'll need a 3' (1 meter) USB male to USB female to plug the dongle into and get it as far way away from the USB 3.0 as you can. USB 3 (or something) also interferes with a Mobil Hotspot connection. I was unable to connect using my phone, getting an "eth0: link is down" message. I happened to have a USB Pi antenna left over from sharing my neighbors WIFI which cleared it up. I appreciate all your work, but this isn't a plug and play mod

@nithinc8638 4 года назад

Hey ETA prime, can you please check will this work with odroid n2?

@kbprojekty 3 года назад

That's the big problem with Raspebry Pi 4 - it wants to be a fully-fledged desktop replacement... with microSD card for system and no easy way to change it without plugging anything. No. 1 on my wishlist in future Raspberries is m.2 slot to connect a small-size m.2 hard drive. Hope it can be achieved while retaining a small device size.

@alfiegordon9013 4 года назад

I wonder if there could be a hardmod to connect an m.2 to those pcie lanes that were found in it. The you could get better R / W speeds and better general performance

@jvm-tv 3 года назад

I wonder if the effect is noticeable enough to justify the cost.

@IRWPD 4 года назад

That is a cool Pi add on.

@HitnRunTony Год назад

Another great tutorial

@peejae082004 Год назад

Will the increased write/read speeds on this setup make any positive performance increase if you're going to use the Pi as a low powered Plex/OpenMediaVault server?

@BrickTamlandOfficial 4 года назад

whats the speed difference between a usb stick that is usb 3.1 and this m.2? why pay more for m.2 memory when the stick does the same thing...

@MegaManNeo 4 года назад

You still need a case for that with proper fans installed. Otherwise, this is pretty cool, especially now with the 8GB Pi4.

@earx23 3 года назад

Waahh. It booted to desktop in a mere 6 seconds!

@AussieAmigan 2 года назад

Excuse my extreme ignorance, but why does it need to sit underneath? Couldn't it sit on top?

@MrHatoi 4 года назад

Why not just use a USB 3.0 drive if it's going to be bottlenecked to USB 3.0 speeds anyway?

@haxorcomputerservices 4 года назад

Thank you gor this its very cool. Could you not get a fast USB drive though seems like it would cheaper and easier? How would a fast USB drive compare speed wise for boot and transfers?

@seththebeatmxchine 3 года назад

Can anybody tell me when he's talking about the power supply @ 3:40 does the 5w power supply that comes with the Labist kit count as good enough to not need power to the ssd? Sorry that was a mouthful and it's late 😖

@NIVO1972 4 года назад

So the only thing really holding a Pi back any more is the gpu. Wish they would make a PRO version pi with upgraded gpu. Id pay up to an extra $30 for one if it came as a Pi4 Pro 8gb. The form factor sells itself. All you'd need is probably a beefier wall wart, but that wouldnt be an issue at all.

@annihilatorg 4 года назад

Hey ETA, have you seen the power management board or cases from geekworm? I've been toying with the idea of building a full pi4 desktop using their stuff.

@marvinfadri3479 4 года назад

Hi ETA, can you please make a tutorial about mini render farm with raspbery pi in blender? Your videos are easy to follow for us begginers

@theburntcrumpet8371 4 года назад

It's pretty cool but tbh over usb 3.0 I'd probably just get a sata adapter and a sata SSD

@DrFunFong Год назад

Will a DRAM cache m.2 SSD be faster, or does the USB 3.0 interface negate any speed advantage that a DRAM would offer?

@marcusohrvall3710 4 года назад

Great video, im just wondering if this will work with the ice tower cooler on it aswell? Thanks!

@beauregardslim1914 4 года назад

It may seem like a minor thing to most, but that huge gap between the boards kills this for me. Why isn't it more compact? Does it run really hot?

@ricksterffr5155 3 года назад

I don't see anything that would prevent mounting this to the top other than getting different length standoffs. In fact it looks like you could hook up two of them, top and bottom.

@opjose 4 года назад

Say goodbye to 2.4ghz WiFi and wireless keyboards and mice when you use one of these... How do I know this?

@thierrybranca7221 3 года назад

Agree. What a bad surprise.

@fernando1981ramos 2 года назад

Are there any tutorials on how to install a retro pie image on this set up?

@sarge1077 4 года назад

Isn't there another way to connect that ssd using those pins rather than taking a USB 3.0 slot like the rock pi 4

@carlsagan2371 3 года назад

You should really compare this to standard SSDs as really the USB 3.0 is not going to give you much of a performance boost with NVME. This might be different with the PCI-E on the compute Pi 4 boards.

@pqrstzxerty1296 4 года назад

Why not just use a fast USB 3 memory key ?

@aaronv.1746 3 года назад

I just got this and the connector bridge for some reason interferes with my wireless keyboard. I have to stand a foot away for it too work. If I take it out everything works fine. Anyone had this issue and how did you solve it?

@BrianThomas 4 года назад

What's a decent case that can be used with this setup? This would be worth making for a few family members of mine.

@retroman8424 4 года назад

This is a really cool idea. However I have an existing usb 3.0 ssd that I have been looking for a clean way to route it to the under side of the case. I think the usb bridge in this kit would be perfect. Anyone know where I can find just the usb bridge?