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An M.2 PCIe HAT for Raspberry Pi 5 (picockpit.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (7 children)

When you add up prices of:

pi itself
this hat that is necessary if you want more reliable storage
heatsink and case with fan, which is now also necessary to cool it
their Fancy power adapter, which is necessary because they couldn't be bothered to add USB pd or USB qc

Total cost of entry becomes much less attractive for hobby use and is close enough to cheaper or used mini PCs which allows for much smoother experience in regards to os support

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Well, if you use it mostly for GPIO, you don't really need any of that. At the same time though you likely don't need a Pi 5 (or likely even Pi 4) to begin with as any Pi will do GPIO without problems.

That said the cooling requirements are often quite overstated - outside of niche uses where you actually run at full throttle for sustained periods of time, you don't really need to care about it. Sure, it will throttle if you run stress-ng for more than few minutes, but so what? If your workload hammers the Pi at 100% of all cores for long time, you are using wrong platform to begin with.

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