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HatDrive! Nano for Raspberry Pi 5

HatDrive! Nano for Raspberry Pi 5

We have ✅ 2 available of the PH-106004 in our Sydney warehouse.

Express post delivery (2-5 business days)

Looking for an M.2 HAT for your Raspberry Pi 5 that fits within the official Raspberry Pi 5 case? So were we! That’s why we worked on the Pineboards HatDrive! Nano so that you don’t have to leave your poor Pi exposed to the world.
Supporting both M.2 2230 and M.2 2242 form factor devices with an M-Key connection, you can install an NVMe SSD and enjoy the much faster storage over the Raspberry Pi’s PCIe Gen 2/3 connection, or install AI accelerators or anything else that makes use of an M-Key in this form factor.
One of the best things about the tiny footprint of the Nano is that the fan on the Raspberry Pi Active Cooler is unobstructed and can pull in all the air it needs to keep things under control. If you need to use your GPIO header, don’t fret, these are also freely accessible!
Each HatDrive! Nano comes with one of our impedance controlled, itty bitty 25mm PCIe FPC (Flexible Printed Circuit) cable to connect to your Raspberry Pi 5, and all the screws needed to either assemble the HAT in the official case, or out of it.
Raspberry Pi 5 and Case not included
PCIe FPC Bundles now available
In case you are thinking about integrating this board into your custom project, don't overlook the optional Pineboards PCIe FPC Bundle. Utilising the 100mm ribbon cable will provide you with added flexibility during the installation process of our boards.
We now stock an XL version of the bundle too!
Features
  • Incredibly small footprint: At its widest points it measures just 55x34mm!
  • Official case compatibility: Why compromise? Utilise the lid of your case to keep everything safe.
  • Wide-ranging device support: With both 2230 & 2242 M-Key M.2 devices supported, possibilities are endless. The presence of SUSCLK improves NVMe drive compatibility too!
  • No half measures: Whilst small in stature, we didn’t cop out on components. For example, a quality 3A buck converter. Higher efficiency, less heat!
  • High-quality accessories: The included impedance-controlled PCIe cable ensures a consistent, and quality connection to your Raspberry Pi 5, even at Gen 3 speeds! That, and all our screws/spacers are metal for that premium feel.
  • Great value: When we say Nano, we mean both in size and impact on your wallet!
Resources
  • Link coming soon!
Package Contents
  • 1x HatDrive! Nano board
  • 1x 25mm PCIe FPC cable with controlled impedance
  • 1x Fixings set
Raspberry Pi 5 and Case not included

The HatDrive! Nano for Raspberry Pi 5 appears in the following collections:

SKU PH-106004
by PiHut

Customer Reviews

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Ross
Excellent little board

This is a great little board for your M.2 2230 and M.2 2242 form factor NVMe devices.
I installed it into my Raspberry Pi 5, I plugged in my NVMe and it worked straight away. All I had to do was to partition it (with fdisk in my case) and format it (to ext4 in my case). A small note, though. My Pi 5 is not in a standard case, but rather bolted into a heat sink arrangement. So the stand-off posts, which appear to have something like M2 or M2.5 screw threads, did not work for me (and were not tall enough to clear my heatskink anyway. But I had some stand-off posts that I had kept from an old PC which had a M3 thread and that worked fine (and someone like Jaycar has that sort of stuff as well if you need to go down that path).
In my case, I moved all physical top level directories with stuff in them (that is, all bar the root directory, /root, /etc and temporary in-memory (tmpfs) directories, so /var, /home, /usr, /tmp) and I put a swap partition on there for good measure. I think that has sped up my Raspberry Pi 5 quite a bit.
If you are looking for giving your Pi a performance hit, then this little adapter board will certainly be of help.