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Seeed PCIe 3.0 Dual M.2 HAT for Raspberry Pi 5
The pictures on the wiki are not the clearest (every fixing appears to be white in the pictures, but helpfully, the ones in the packaging were different materials/colours.
Nice there is also spares of everything.
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2 months ago
Seeed PCIe 3.0 Dual M.2 HAT for Raspberry Pi 5
Does work but awkward to install and high power consumption.
Instructions on Seeed wiki don't match the contents delivered. The wiki shows some short nylon spacers which you thread screws through to secure to the base standoffs. Actual pack was missing nylon spacers but instead had metal spacers with a stud and tapped hole, did still have the long screws but they don't seem to have any use. End result is OK, but fiddly to install. Especially since there are some tiny spring loaded studs which have to exactly match up to the base of the Pi GPIO power pins.
Main issue though is power consumption. Pi-5 with Pimoroni base and one NVMe drive draws around 0.5A when fully booted and quiet with no GUI. Same NVMe drive using this base draws over 0.9A under the same conditions, nearly doubling the power consumption! Since this was meant for a battery-powered application that's disappointing.
To be fair if you are then going to install a Hailo-8L as well, a prime use for this base, then maybe you aren't so power conscious and it does work at the speeds advertised. So maybe 3* is a little harsh but can't bring myself to give 4* for something so unexpectedly power hungry.
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3 months ago
Seeed PCIe 3.0 Dual M.2 HAT for Raspberry Pi 5
works fine using Pi SSDs
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3 months ago
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