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Re: [Sheflug] Raspberry Pi 5



Hi Richard,

The Pis typically have M2.5 holes whereas most desktop machines have M3
holes and posts.

Although you can find these on Amazon (search for "raspberry pi standoffs")
I found a couple of my Pis were every so slightly smaller. You can either
hand drill out the holes or in my case I bought 6BA studding and nuts. The
old British Association sizes has 6BA being 2.3mm. (5BA is just too large
at 2.65mm.

Regards
John

On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 at 10:54, Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> For anyone who might be interested. I've been thinking for some time
> that I should replace an old AMD64 workstation with something that is
> more up to date.  Came to the conclusion that a Raspberry Pi 5 would do
> everything that I wanted it to do as long as it had 1Tb of storage
> space.  I've finally been able to get it to work with a Pinebery Pi top
> hat and with Jeff Geerlings instructions....
>
> https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/nvme-ssd-boot-raspberry-pi-5
> https://pineberrypi.com/
>
>
> Problems ?  The Pi 5 is a bit choosy about which NVMe SSD it likes. I've
> been able to get a Kingston 2230 NVMe to work which came from Amazon.
> Works fine with Raspbian. So, I'm going to try Ubuntu next.  Not sure if
> that's going to work..
>
> https://ubuntu.com/download/raspberry-pi
>
> You might like to know that Pimoroni have a bottom hat for NVMe drives.
> Depends whether you want a bottom or a top hat.  No sign of a Pi 5 case
> so far that will take a bottom or a top hat.  Well, you can find a case
> but no way of fixing it in place with brass posts.  All the brass posts
> and cases are just the wrong size.
>
> --
> Richard
>
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