GeekwormX1001 M.2 KEY-M NVMe SSD Shield for Raspberry Pi 5

Easy to fit. Bought with a cheap 512Gb NVME M2 (Fikwot) and I am now launched into the 4th dimension of Pi'ing. I don't think that is a word but, you know what I mean.I thought it didn't make much of a difference at first. Then when I changed my mind about what OS to use, I booted from the SD card again and it was so slow. Booting from this is considerably faster. Well packaged and works perfectly.Also bought a UGreen USB-C caddy for the NVME and you can use Pi Imager straight to the drive in the USB caddy to install. Then just put the drive in here and you are ready to go.

Fits easily, works well. Do wish the PCIe cable was a bit easier to fit but...

Straightforward enough to fit & works well with a recently redundant Kingston A2000.

Summary: it is relatively small and cheap and will fit a full lengh NVMe SSD 2280 (or shorter) at PCIe 3 (x1) speed. But there are better shields now, some with a 2nd slot for say a TPU/AI card or something else.The standard (active) cooler also does fit underneath it - and since the board is not full width - it should have some more air to work with - rather than other shields that cover the whole top making airflow a lot more difficult.There is also an AUX power connector if you find Pi's power to be insufficient for the SSD - although you probably should not be using power-hungry SSD in the 1st place for a Pi. Hopefully the OS you're using will enable SSD DIPM power management, not sure if DevSleep can engage. Worth checking.

Used this to add a 4TB drive to m y Pi5 running a Plex server. I already had the drive configured using a USB enclosure, but wanted something more fixed. Have been looking at a few, but found this was a nice compact board. Booted up fine and kept my existing configuration.

Nice to have nvme speed on the Pi 5.

Works great. No Issues

It comes with a full fitting kit, with long extenders from the PI board. A full Pi 5 heatsink and fan easilly fits under the board, the fan is only very slightly obscured, but there is enough room betwen fan and board for airflow. Wery easy to fit to PI and SSD card. Set up instructions could be better, but there are some good Youtube set up videos for Pi 5 and SSD's. NB the M2 SSD MUST be formatted before trying to use. You might want to consider buying a USB C SSD M2 adapter/case for that, damn useful to have one of those around anyway.