Pineboards, previously referred to as Pineberry Pi, has launched a brand new entry in its HatDrive! collection of M.2 {Hardware} Hooked up on High (HAT) add-ons for the Raspberry Pi 5 — and this model, dubbed the HatDrive! Nano, is sufficiently small to squeeze into the official Raspberry Pi 5 Case together with the Energetic Cooler.
“With such a tiny M.2 HAT, you get to utilize NVMe [Non-Volatile Memory Express] SSDs [Solid State Drives], AI [Artificial Intelligence] accelerators, and the rest that makes use of an M-Key on this type issue,” Pineboards writes of its newest {hardware} launch. “All with the additional advantage of with the ability to use the lid in your official case to maintain issues neat and tidy. Need to use the Energetic Cooler too? No downside, you possibly can!”
Pineboards’ newest HatDrive! is the ultra-compact Nano, designed for a minimal footprint with out sacrificing efficiency. (📷: Pineboards)
Like the remainder of the HatDrive! household, which beat Raspberry Pi’s personal M.2 HAT+ to the punch, the HatDrive! Nano is designed to faucet into the PCI Categorical lane obtainable on a flat versatile circuit (FFC) connector to the sting of the Raspberry Pi 5 for high-speed storage and extra. The place its predecessor took up nearly the complete footprint of the Raspberry Pi, although, the Nano flips the drive round — delivering a substantial smaller footprint.
The drive is so small, in reality, that Pineboards boasts it may be put in within the official Raspberry Pi 5 Case alongside the Energetic Cooler — a heatsink and fan meeting designed to maintain the Raspberry Pi 5’s high-performance system-on-chip cool underneath heavy load situations — with out blocking airflow. Regardless of its measurement, the board is fully-functional — together with assist for operation at PCIe Gen. 3 speeds, should you’re prepared to run the Raspberry Pi 5 out-of-spec, and mounting factors for each 2230- and 2242- footprint M.2 units.
The board is sufficiently small to slot in the official Raspberry Pi 5 case, even when utilizing the Energetic Cooler add-on. (📷: Pineboards)
It is not simply the footprint the corporate has slashed, both: the HatDrive! Nano is the bottom price mannequin within the household, priced at simply €9 (round $10) — a bit of over half the value of the HatDrive! High Lite and fewer than half the price of the unique HatDrive! High. “It is one of the reasonably priced choices on the market to make the final word improve out of your getting old microSD card,” Pineboards claims.
The HatDrive! Nano is now obtainable to order on the Pineboards retailer, together with a choice of official resellers around the globe.