Review Pineboards HatDrive! Nano Review: Low-cost, high-speed storage for your Raspberry Pi 5

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Pineboards latest PCIe add-on board for the Raspberry Pi 5 is a low-cost NVMe storage option that pulls no punches. We get all of the features and speed of NVMe, for the cost of a coffee and sandwich!

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Thanks for the review.

First we tested with the case completely off. This returned an idle temperature of 37.3 degrees Celsius, and a stress temperature of 60.4°C. With the case on, those temperatures increased. At idle, we recorded 41.1°C, and under stress we saw 66.4°C.

Uh, these are CPU temperatures, right? If so, I'd love to see the SSD temperatures, also.

We set the Raspberry Pi 5 to use PCIe Gen 3. This is easily configured via raspi-config.

I'd love an explanation of why this isn't the default. Are there risks or requirements (cooling?) associated with using PCIe 3.0? Is there anything about it that's not 100% stable?