GeeekPi P33 M.2 NVME M-Key PoE+ Hat with Official Pi 5 Active Cooler for Raspberry Pi 5, Support M.2 NVMe SSDs 2230/2242/2260/2280

I was rocking the PoE+ Hat for a while, running various containers on a Pi5 in my network closet, and have been really impressed with the little device... however, the longer I ran it the more and more concerned I got about the eventual inevitability of the SD card giving up the ghost. I didn't want to give up the PoE since it's super convenient to just plug in the raspi and go... so when I saw this I decided I'd take the leap.Super impressed. I used rpi-clone (had to make some symbolic links to map /dev/nvme0n1p1 to /dev/nvme0n11 and /dev/nvme0n1p2 to /dev/nvme0n12 to make it work) and everything else was pretty much a breeze. Once that was done and I modified the config as per the great instructions, I rebooted onto the NVMe and we're a go!The only downside is I can no longer use my Pi case with the 'open lid' as I could before... this hat is just too long for that. But no worries... I'll look for another case. This is working great.Performance is excellent with a Patriot P300 NVMe SSD; the drive negotiated at PCIe Gen 3 x1, showing 8GT/s link speed and x1 width.hdparm reported buffered disk reads of about 843 MB/s.

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This board works really well. The thing that is mildly disappointing is that the board extends over the top of the ports. If you look at all the official HATs from Raspberry Pi, none of theirs do this. This creates a little bit of a physical compatibility issue with a lot of rack mounts and other types of enclosures where there are slots cut out for the ports. This board protruding too far forward can prevent things from physically lining up. If the rack/enclosure has holes that the Pi should line up with and be mounted to, this board jutting out too far in the front can throw everything off by a few millimeters so that the Pi doesn't line up with the mounting hole. I had a very expensive rack that I needed to drill my own holes in to make things fit and it came out ok, but there's still a bit of an issue in that the Pis are all recessed a few millimeters now instead of their ports being flush with the front face. Kind of annoying and all on account of the board jutting out too far in the front. Other than this, these boards have been great. Tech-wise, no issues.

So far, so good. I've got some issues with the software, but this board is running fine with my Pi 5 in an outdoor sealed electrical box at the end of 200 ft of outdoor Ethernet cable. I haven't monitored the daytime temperatures of the Pi inside the box in the sun, so all I can say is that it's still running after 2 weeks outside. I know the power converter and the Pi generate heat, so that will likely limit the system's longevity in my application. I considered mounting a waterproof 5V power converter outside the box for heat reasons, but that got too problematic when trying to use a standard POE+ power injector on the house side.

This combines a 2280 M.2 and POE for the Pi 5.What would make it perfect would be a full 5A of output as opposed to 4.5A. It will show the lightning bolt as it's not 5A for awareness, and likely limit downstream current. But, I had no issues running the NVME HAT along with POE, and it worked just fine with a USB hub for my 2 port keyboard (lighted) and mouse, and HDMI so the current was sufficient. The listing was accurate, though. It would also be nice if were not as tall, much like the official Pi 4 POE adapter with the planar component and solid capacitors.This came with 2 M.2 screws as well as another anchor for smaller drives. The 2280 hole is fixed. It seemed to support PCI-E 3.0 just fine as the drive speed was around 900MB/s.There is a version for up to 2245 that is shorter, but it lacks the 2280 compatability and the pins for 3.3, 5, and 12V. I also like that the GPIO extenders were long enough to still use the GPIO; the official HAT is not.Maybe one day the official adapter will come out and still be compatbile with HATs and the official cooler, though I doubt it will work with all of them and also put out 5A given how small it will be.

After testing a few hats found this to be the absolute best for running pi 5s off POE. Slowly converting my current set up from Pimoroni NVME bases to this configuration for my 10” rack. Works without issue when I have four plugged into a TPlink tp-sg105mpe; but will be moving to a ubiquity flex 2.5 soon to cut clutter (I need 8 ports to run all the pi’s when complete).I wish there was an option to get them without the POE hat because I already had them for all my current nodes, but all in all it’s priced well. They also give you two connector ribbons in case you screw one up, which is nice.

Best shield, my second one has some nice improvements too. Instead of one large cap, there are now a row of surface mount capacitors, probably for better power filtering. These are completely awesome for a Raspberry Pi 5. The cooler is official hardware and the hat is awesome. Fast NVME to boot and operate, check. POE to power the Pi, check. Stays cool and runs super fast thanks to the cooler, check. Anytime I buy a Pi 5, I'm buying one of these to go with it.

Not compatible with Pi 5 8gb out of the box, and then trying to modify the configuration files never worked for me. Unable to recognize the 1TB nvme I purchased for what was supposed to be a fun weekend project. I regret not spending half the price on the official Pi M.2 hat and putting the leftover budget into an nvme that fits it.

Funciona a la primera. Solo tienes que tener cuidado con el Flex del pci, habilitar pcie gen 3 si tú Nvme es 3.0 y listo.

Perfect fit and integration. This hat quickly expands the boot drive to a larger, faster, and more reliable NVMe SSD. The system boots much quicker than from an SD card. The PoE+ allows for reboots over LAN and greatly simplifies the cabling. I would happily buy this again for other units.

Funciona bien con un nvme verbatim 4 tb, aunque en la pi marca un msj de bajo voltaje

Works well, and it's handy having 3.3/5/12 volt sources easily available via the jumpers on board.The flexible flat cable is a bit finicky to get in place (as are most FFC's) but locks in place fine.NVME speeds are decent and temperature isn't an issue even under heavy loads.

Poe and NVMe SSD!! Somethin every Pi owner should have. Works great and easy to install