Raspberry PI 5 +Active Cooler + NVMe Base = Great Performance

I finally got hold of the Raspberry PI 5 and in this video, I take a look. I add an Active Cooler fan and PIMoroni NVMe Base to allow me to boot from SSD. I take a look at the performance of the RPI5 in comparison to my RPI4 booting from USB SSD.
CPU and Memory performance were reported as up over 80% by sysbench. File system writes were up 60% compared to my USB adapter SSDs. All locally measured performance may not be the same as your environment.
Great video from PIMoroni on installing the NVMe Base: • Installing the Pimoron...
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⏰Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
1:00 RPI5 Intro
3:00 RPI Active Cooler
5:51 NVMe Base

[@TutoDS2014]

Can this base work with the normal cases? Any other solution to use NVME and active cooling?

[@DrJonEA]

There are a few cases available for this on Thingiverse. I've not seen any commercial ones yet though.
Example: www.thingiverse.com/thing:6457430

[@nicksharp7680]

Hi Jon, you stated that all the USB ports are USB 3, this is incorrect as the Pi 5 is the same as the 4 on this front with 2 USB2 and 2 USB 3

[@DrJonEA]

Thanks Nick, You are right and I got that completely wrong. Wishful thinking on my part:-)

[@nicksharp7680]

@@DrJonEA Ha would be nice to have 4 USB 3 ports but the PCIe interface more than makes up for it. I also noticed you seem to be getting 1/2 the throughput I'm seeing on my SSD drive. Have you upgraded the PCIe interface to 3.0?
Simply add the following to config.txt and reboot
dtparam=pciex1
dtparam=pciex1_gen=3
Would be interesting to see drive performance afterwards

[@DrJonEA]

That's interesting Nick. No I stuck to pciex1_gen=2 as 3 was marked as experimental. I will give it a go.