Great video! But as others have said, you need to be careful with terminology - M.2 or 2.5inch is the size of SSD, whereas SATA or NVMe is the technology. An NVMe drive wouldn't work in this
The M.2 slot is M-keyed for NVMe drives. I think (don't quote me) that the Pi 4 supports the NVMe protocol, but with it going over USB 3 you won't be getting typical NVMe speeds. It would be weird for them to use the M.2 slot for NVMe if they didn't actually support NVMe drives: if anything that would create a lot of confusion for consumers who wouldn't know otherwise and could lead to bad press. I definitely agree with your comment that we need to be more careful with the terminology, though.
(pedantic mode on ). Also he refers to the screws used to secure the backplate as Allen Keys. But isn't Allen Key the name of the hexagonal tool, not the name of the screws themselves. (pedantic mode off).
Well, that kind of stinks - I bought it and, based on your NVME comments, purchased an M.2 NVME drive for it, only to find out it's M.2 SATA. No big deal - I can use the NVME drive on another box, but now waiting for the M.2 SATA drive to arrive. Love your videos, but going to have to double check what you say, going forward...
The needs to be corrected. The DeskPi Pro does *NOT* support M.2 NVMe SSD's. The M.2 adapter is for M.2 SATA SSD's only (i.e. it's not a PCIe). M.2 is a physical form factor.
i have a v1 and im absolut happy with it. was a litte bit amazed as i recived an update package due to an usb? error in the early version...thats customer service!
When we designed and produced the V1 version, we had negligence, which caused trouble to all customers. In order to prevent everyone from paying for our mistakes, we decided to reissue all the circuit boards for the first batch of customers for free, hoping to get yours Forgive me, and I also hope to let everyone know that our team really wants to provide you with innovative and high-quality Raspberry Pi related products
Just got this case in and man is it sweet and easy to setup too. I seriously like the small weight it has thank you so much for this review on the deskpi pro
Thank you for this informative, detailed and professional video - I am studying programming on my Rpi and take to back and forth to work and this case is fantastic. Your video made setup a breeze!
Love your videos. Keep them coming. The products being reviewed are really awesome. The only drawback is the need for a usb jumper. With todays technology, these companies should be able to build a produce that doesn’t need a usb jumper for the drive to work.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I am almost positive that it does NOT have an actual safe shutdown feature. Meaning the button on the case can't initiate a software safe shutdown, like for example the Argon case . You would have to shutdown the system through the operating system and then the button would cut the power to the board/drive. I really want this case but I haven't bought it yet because of this oversight so if I am mistaken please correct the record and I will buy it right away. Never the less, thank you ETA for all your amazing content. Keep them coming! Edit- The brackets for the Ice Tower seem to be deformed upwards away from the board which made it extremely hard to get attached to the Pi. Did anyone else run into the same problem? It seems like a qc problem.
nice look but still expensive. I dont know why it goes high like that when it actually uses much less materials than a full ATX case you can buy for a PC. Heck if you going to spend a 100+ dollars on a Pi PC, its much better just buy a x86 barebones instead.
I'm now making systems for auto and solar and power usage is becoming a huge factor. The less power it uses the longer it runs so x86 just uses too much power.
it doesnt make any sense to me. also, they are a lot of sbcs that have REAL nvme ports out of the box (for example, rockpi4 does nvme with 4x pci 2.0 lanes)
Swapped out from Argon one (v1) to this at the weekend.As commented before the heatsink took forever for me to get all four screws to bite. Googled about ribbon cables and that was ok. All fitted together after fine until I had to fit rear perspex. Had to enlarge USB ports holes slightly for it to fit. Have Manjaro Arm KDE Plasma running fine on it .
How did you do the software install on Manjaro ARM? I got a pile of errors when I ran the Manjaro-specific installer script. I'm guessing I was supposed to do ... something else. Thanks for the help. :)
Had to watch this video review, as I bought one of these DeskPi Pro cases shortly after they were released. I had the pleasure of finding the parts easy to assemble, the only issue I had was that the little ribbon cables were difficult to get perfectly lined up and clamped in place (for my big farmer's fingers). I chose to buy and use an nvme style SSD (technically it's a nvme sata interface SSD, not PCiE nvme), at 1Tb, so I have plenty of room. After getting up and running I downloaded and installed Twister OS on my SSD, and boot and run from it, while running in Win-7 Themed OS (it looks EXACTLY like Win-7, it's really uncanny how good of a job they did with that theming!) I also (unexpectedly) received an upgrade kit from the DeskPi company a couple weeks back that included new circuit boards and the little divider and a neat little stand for the outside of the case. I did not request these upgrade parts, they just sent them to me free of charge with full instructions and with thanks for buying their case. Wow. I was surprised! I disassembled my DeskPi pro and took out all the old parts and included and re-assembled the parts and the case and it all booted right back up (running the awesome Twister OS Win-7 theme), and it's running Great! I use it daily!! It's a great little lite desktop for lite uses! Thanks for the review and the nice video of this setup! Nicely Done!
When we designed and produced the V1 version, we had negligence, which caused trouble to all customers. In order to prevent everyone from paying for our mistakes, we decided to reissue all the circuit boards for the first batch of customers for free, hoping to get yours Forgive me, and I also hope to let everyone know that our team really wants to provide you with innovative and high-quality Raspberry Pi related products
I am loving mine, mounting the heat sync was a little bothersome for me as its a tight fit for the final short screw but yeah this is an awesome addition to the Pi4 ;)
The case is WAY too expensive. Unless you're putting in at least a 1TB HDD, why bother? SSD is fast enough, and if you want more space, a 256GB flash drive is around $40. The case is $200. Check out the FLIRC case (no, not affiliated with them) - I really like that case. The entire case is a heat sink and it's a nice little package. I can NOT overheat my pi with that, no matter what I do, and I did ffmpeg transcoding with it.
I bought the Crucial 500GB M.2 SSD you affiliate linked and it doesn't work with this case. Did you test with the drive? I bought it because you linked it. Perhaps remove the links if you don't know if the drives work.
Oh man, had I known this DesPi Pro existed I would not have bought a NasPi case, oh well, good video :-) Edit: Shame it only ships from the US, so much customs duty and shipping to pay, at least the NasPi was shipped through Amazon from within the UK and arrived 2 days after ordering.
A few things i would like changed. 1. UPS battery 2. Mounts for the 7" touch screen for pi. 3. Mounts for the camera. 4. Make the usb 3 bridge thingy less bulky.
The reason for getting a Pi is portability and cost. We're effectively upgrading the specs to laptop territory, to the point where its actually cheaper to buy a more powerful laptop.
Hi, a nice little niche product you have here, I watched your video on batocera very cool, but I wonder, do you know about retrobat? It is literary batocera on windows, it's portable I am sure your audience would be interested, thanks for sharing your experiences.
[update]: as pointed out by BP in the comment below, at 8:10 there's a note about WiFi, rendering this comment useless and my lowered attention evident :D /// Does WiFi work properly or does this suffer from the interference issues the Geekworm suffers from? You should always test WiFi when this kind of enclosures (sourcing from USB port) are being tested :)
My V1 preorder once it got to me was ok but had ALOT of issues. Once they shipped the updated parts that fixed the sata controller and a few other issues. It turned out to be a great daily driver.
So, according to the DeskPi Pro product page, only M.2 SATA SSD is supported... NOT NVMe. This should be clearly stated and maybe the headline for your video shouldn't include NVMe as it is false. Otherwise, love your videos man, keep 'em coming.
video playback is great on mine. 4gb pi4 with little OC plays videos just fine.... but i have it set to force at 1080P only.. not designed for more than that
@@josephs1753 I watch multiple livestreams/youtube videos at once at times. Was looking at picking up an atomic pi. They seem to have a little more processing power but still probably not for my use case.
So you need proper thermal paste or thermal pad for actual performance of the fan powered and copper pipe heat traveling? Metal on Metal is a horrible solution.
Neat setup and great video. Particularly liked the touch screen setup. Looked in your links but did not see it. please provide link in reply if possible.
How long did this take to come in? I just ordered one from the link in this video on the 26th of this year 2021 and hopefully I get it before christmas
Hey ETA great vid as always...I had a quick question. There's quite pi retro game images online, can you put one of those images on an ssd or nvme and boot off those?
Yes you can boot right from the ssd or m.2 . You just need the firmware to be updated to allow booting from that. Im sure there are vids on here that show you how to do just that. Been using my 2nd pi4 with an argon case that boots from an M.2 for a few months now.... works great. :-)
Very nice looking, but in a similar vein to what others have said, it seems like the Argon one m.2, with its ability to use full-size hdmi and an m.2 ssd, is a better deal for $45.
Got a PI 4 and this case and 240gb SSD really only put ubuntu on the drive but struggling to get the fan and the front USB ports working Linux is pretty new to me by the way.
Already had a pi 4b 8gb, just ordered the case, wont be here till middle of next month. :/ I been wanting to make an all-in-one type emulation box to replace some of my old consoles i got hooked up anyways but hated the idea of buying a massive sdcard or having usb drive plugged in. Now i can pop a drive in with the pi, no more usbs.
Keep in mind that that´s nit the best desktop replacement. if you want that, use something like a Larkbox, it´s more powerfull. But if you want gpio use the pi of course
DSO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT ! I purchased two of those and none of them works.I used two RasPi-5/8Gb and none will reboot. Tried Rasbian-32/63 and Diet-Pi. There is also a problem with cooling fan, and no video (unless I pull out and reinsert HDMI cable). I have to do it every time I reboot or when the device goes to sleep. In other words - serious issues with the software. Cooling fan almost impossible to mount because of the short threads on the screws. Company completely unresponsive. It looks great, but that is the only positive thing. It simply does not work and until the software/drivers etc is updated it is simply waste of money. Customer support does not exist.
I wish it had an internal gpio header on the board as well. I would have added a watchdog. What I would really like to see is someone make a pi that has a pcie hub and add support for an nvme drive and some SATA ports.
Even extending the upper and lower case halves back a bit, as in recess it all in would help cover that bodge. I'd also like a retaining screw or two so it cannot go astray, or be disturbed during use.
@@paulstubbs7678 the USB connector doesn't bother me at all. It is pretty clean. But that is a matter of taste really. I find the idea pretty good overall.
DeskPi Pro have been released last year,much more early than the NASPI,and have much more fuctions,the brand new ICE Tower and QC 3.0 Power adpator are included in the box
@ETAPrime Could you test the Sata IO and temps head to head with the argon m.2 case. Then give an honest opinion based on performance and price, which is worthy?
Found one of these at a local store or something like it, what's the max ssd m.2 (this uses m.2 only) can I put for a pi 4? What's a recommendation for future and not running out of storage?
I like the concept of the case but I just can't justify buying a case that is significantly more expensive than my RPi4 (factoring in shipping and duties)
Yea I feel the same. I was about to buy this and then the price and size made me think otherwise - bought a $10 Sata to usb adapter and will likely just rubberband the ssd to the pi lol.
Thanks for the review I love this case, but only thing, the cooling is far from ideal compared to my Armor Case V2.0 with single fan, I got around 40C at 2.2Ghz. Btw how do I install the SD card copier on Ubuntu-Mate, I couldn't find it in the respo. thanks !
@@odhiambo0 This is the 3rd reply to you, the first one with link disappeared I believe TH-cam does not allow sending link so removed the message, actually this is not the first time happened to me. I sent another one w/o link but mentioned brand name in Amazon for you to search got removed as well nothing more I can do here sorry !
I have already invested in a good ssd disk with USB-C interface and so I won't be able to take advantage of it to install inside the case. Do you have any solution? Thanks.
The regular Pi 4b supports NVME drives via USB 3.0 to NVME adapters (as far as the Pi is concerned, these are just USB external SSDs). The Pi Compute Module 4 supports actual NVMEs plugged directly into the PCI bus.
Have you noticed any under voltage warnings with this case?, I got mine yesterday and it is constantly showing under voltage warning, tried 3 different power supply, the one supplied in the kit, an official pi4 psu, and a geekworm 4A psu.
Great video! But as others have said, you need to be careful with terminology - M.2 or 2.5inch is the size of SSD, whereas SATA or NVMe is the technology. An NVMe drive wouldn't work in this
Truly,the NVME is not support in the DeskPi Pro,because the speed of USB 3.0 for the Pi 4 is not very fast,no need the NVME for the DeskPi Pro
The M.2 slot is M-keyed for NVMe drives. I think (don't quote me) that the Pi 4 supports the NVMe protocol, but with it going over USB 3 you won't be getting typical NVMe speeds. It would be weird for them to use the M.2 slot for NVMe if they didn't actually support NVMe drives: if anything that would create a lot of confusion for consumers who wouldn't know otherwise and could lead to bad press. I definitely agree with your comment that we need to be more careful with the terminology, though.
(pedantic mode on ). Also he refers to the screws used to secure the backplate as Allen Keys. But isn't Allen Key the name of the hexagonal tool, not the name of the screws themselves. (pedantic mode off).
@@juandenz2008 At least he dosnt call wallpapers a screensaver
@@harrisonknox1637 It's set up for an M.2 SATA and @Rusty Brakes is correct. NVMe drives won't work with the M.2 adapter, only M.2 SATA.
Finally received the Update Kit sent to me after a Month in USPS Never-Never Land. Works Great.
Well, that kind of stinks - I bought it and, based on your NVME comments, purchased an M.2 NVME drive for it, only to find out it's M.2 SATA. No big deal - I can use the NVME drive on another box, but now waiting for the M.2 SATA drive to arrive. Love your videos, but going to have to double check what you say, going forward...
same. now stuck with a $50 card i can't use...
Your can use these nvme drives on your PC externally, or even internally if it has an M.2 slot.
The needs to be corrected. The DeskPi Pro does *NOT* support M.2 NVMe SSD's. The M.2 adapter is for M.2 SATA SSD's only (i.e. it's not a PCIe). M.2 is a physical form factor.
These cases for SBs are getting better and better and they all tend to add more functionality to the boards. Good stuff.
i have a v1 and im absolut happy with it. was a litte bit amazed as i recived an update package due to an usb? error in the early version...thats customer service!
When we designed and produced the V1 version, we had negligence, which caused trouble to all customers. In order to prevent everyone from paying for our mistakes, we decided to reissue all the circuit boards for the first batch of customers for free, hoping to get yours Forgive me, and I also hope to let everyone know that our team really wants to provide you with innovative and high-quality Raspberry Pi related products
It doesn't look like it's NVME compatible. It's just a M.2 SATA to 2.5" adapter.
That is what I thought as well.
It is. I bought a cheap WD SATA 6 drive for mine and it works great.
I doubt the pi can handle the bandwidth of NVME anyways
@@LunatiqHigh well the regular pi simply doesn't have pcie compatibility. The CM4 has pcie support but yes at a very limited bandwidth.
It's still just hooked up to USB 3.
Just got this case in and man is it sweet and easy to setup too. I seriously like the small weight it has thank you so much for this review on the deskpi pro
Thank you for this informative, detailed and professional video - I am studying programming on my Rpi and take to back and forth to work and this case is fantastic. Your video made setup a breeze!
Love your videos. Keep them coming. The products being reviewed are really awesome. The only drawback is the need for a usb jumper. With todays technology, these companies should be able to build a produce that doesn’t need a usb jumper for the drive to work.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I am almost positive that it does NOT have an actual safe shutdown feature. Meaning the button on the case can't initiate a software safe shutdown, like for example the Argon case . You would have to shutdown the system through the operating system and then the button would cut the power to the board/drive. I really want this case but I haven't bought it yet because of this oversight so if I am mistaken please correct the record and I will buy it right away.
Never the less, thank you ETA for all your amazing content. Keep them coming!
Edit- The brackets for the Ice Tower seem to be deformed upwards away from the board which made it extremely hard to get attached to the Pi. Did anyone else run into the same problem? It seems like a qc problem.
if they added a breakout HDMI input port for the camera port so you can do HDMI video capture this thing would be perfect
nice look but still expensive. I dont know why it goes high like that when it actually uses much less materials than a full ATX case you can buy for a PC. Heck if you going to spend a 100+ dollars on a Pi PC, its much better just buy a x86 barebones instead.
Coolness factor 😌
I'm now making systems for auto and solar and power usage is becoming a huge factor. The less power it uses the longer it runs so x86 just uses too much power.
It may be too low volume to amortize tooling costs as ATX and especially MATX.
it doesnt make any sense to me. also, they are a lot of sbcs that have REAL nvme ports out of the box (for example, rockpi4 does nvme with 4x pci 2.0 lanes)
@@BrianBoniMakes then rpi4 isnt the most efficient neither being 28 nm.
Swapped out from Argon one (v1) to this at the weekend.As commented before the heatsink took forever for me to get all four screws to bite. Googled about ribbon cables and that was ok. All fitted together after fine until I had to fit rear perspex. Had to enlarge USB ports holes slightly for it to fit. Have Manjaro Arm KDE Plasma running fine on it .
How did you do the software install on Manjaro ARM?
I got a pile of errors when I ran the Manjaro-specific installer script. I'm guessing I was supposed to do ... something else.
Thanks for the help. :)
@@sinisterpisces If I remember now,I am sure you have to edit boot.config. Something about "Wayland" but you had better Google
it's a joy watching all kinds of Pi cases
Had to watch this video review, as I bought one of these DeskPi Pro cases shortly after they were released.
I had the pleasure of finding the parts easy to assemble, the only issue I had was that the little ribbon cables were difficult to get perfectly lined up and clamped in place (for my big farmer's fingers).
I chose to buy and use an nvme style SSD (technically it's a nvme sata interface SSD, not PCiE nvme), at 1Tb, so I have plenty of room.
After getting up and running I downloaded and installed Twister OS on my SSD, and boot and run from it, while running in Win-7 Themed OS (it looks EXACTLY like Win-7, it's really uncanny how good of a job they did with that theming!)
I also (unexpectedly) received an upgrade kit from the DeskPi company a couple weeks back that included new circuit boards and the little divider and a neat little stand for the outside of the case. I did not request these upgrade parts, they just sent them to me free of charge with full instructions and with thanks for buying their case. Wow. I was surprised! I disassembled my DeskPi pro and took out all the old parts and included and re-assembled the parts and the case and it all booted right back up (running the awesome Twister OS Win-7 theme), and it's running Great!
I use it daily!! It's a great little lite desktop for lite uses!
Thanks for the review and the nice video of this setup! Nicely Done!
When we designed and produced the V1 version, we had negligence, which caused trouble to all customers. In order to prevent everyone from paying for our mistakes, we decided to reissue all the circuit boards for the first batch of customers for free, hoping to get yours Forgive me, and I also hope to let everyone know that our team really wants to provide you with innovative and high-quality Raspberry Pi related products
Excellent analysis of DeskPi Pro V2!
The Desk Pi was a disaster.
I bought one and the parts don't fit at all, some people even damaged their pi with one and lost their usb ports.
Duuuuude that's way better then the argon m.2 case finally a proper heat sink
I am loving mine, mounting the heat sync was a little bothersome for me as its a tight fit for the final short screw but yeah this is an awesome addition to the Pi4 ;)
The case is WAY too expensive. Unless you're putting in at least a 1TB HDD, why bother? SSD is fast enough, and if you want more space, a 256GB flash drive is around $40. The case is $200.
Check out the FLIRC case (no, not affiliated with them) - I really like that case. The entire case is a heat sink and it's a nice little package. I can NOT overheat my pi with that, no matter what I do, and I did ffmpeg transcoding with it.
I have been thinking about how cool it would be to take a wii casing and putting a pc inside of it, why hadn't I thought about putting a pi4 in it?!
Awesome case but at that price point, I would make my own from scratch.
@Brian Babin Thanks for the recommendation, I was looking at them and they certainly seem to have come a long way!
I bought the Crucial 500GB M.2 SSD you affiliate linked and it doesn't work with this case. Did you test with the drive? I bought it because you linked it. Perhaps remove the links if you don't know if the drives work.
Installing a heatsink without using the heatsink sticker is tight!
Am I the only one who wonders how this 240gb ssd turned into a 480gb one?🤔
Running dual channel xd
He probably installed one and had the other one as a example
Just download more space
he mentions it's now a 480Gb @ around 5 min in
Microsoft DriveSpace. 😂🤣
Why would you go with nvme ssd when it’s pluged in into sata as sata -> nvme adapter. Does not make sense
Yeah he messed up. It's m.2 sata, not nvme. There would be no need for nvme anyway because it all hooks up through the usb 3 connection.
Oh man, had I known this DesPi Pro existed I would not have bought a NasPi case, oh well, good video :-)
Edit: Shame it only ships from the US, so much customs duty and shipping to pay, at least the NasPi was shipped through Amazon from within the UK and arrived 2 days after ordering.
A few things i would like changed.
1. UPS battery
2. Mounts for the 7" touch screen for pi.
3. Mounts for the camera.
4. Make the usb 3 bridge thingy less bulky.
Yes please! Internal UPS support!
The reason for getting a Pi is portability and cost. We're effectively upgrading the specs to laptop territory, to the point where its actually cheaper to buy a more powerful laptop.
You talking about the commands that we put in for the fan and what not. That last part was confusing and I’m hung up
That is one nice case for sure.
Nice info, thanks for sharing it:)
what's the point of the dongle thing you plug onto the usb port on the back?
if this had an inbuilt small screen itd be rad
May be next version will be support.
i love mini pcs
Looks nice, suprised by the WiFi, but that stupid little loopback on the back pannel really spoils it.
have you tried retro/batocera on an old all in one pc?
Hi, a nice little niche product you have here, I watched your video on batocera very cool, but I wonder, do you know about retrobat? It is literary batocera on windows, it's portable I am sure your audience would be interested, thanks for sharing your experiences.
All man had no idea that this existed thanks man
It's NICE 👍
[update]: as pointed out by BP in the comment below, at 8:10 there's a note about WiFi, rendering this comment useless and my lowered attention evident :D
///
Does WiFi work properly or does this suffer from the interference issues the Geekworm suffers from?
You should always test WiFi when this kind of enclosures (sourcing from USB port) are being tested :)
8:10 he specifically says that he has noticed no degradation in the WiFi reception 🤔
@@zaugitude Thank you... guess who missed that section? :facepalm
Ey, out of curiosity what micro are you using? btw, I have pro case and is rock solid ! Thks
It's a shame this thing doesn't tick the VESA mount box. I love the look of it
That smol heat sink is cute
You can just flash Raspbian directly to the ssd - no copying needed.
Stephen from the Verge would be so happy that an allen key was used to build this case
My V1 preorder once it got to me was ok but had ALOT of issues. Once they shipped the updated parts that fixed the sata controller and a few other issues. It turned out to be a great daily driver.
Thanks!DeskPi team will release much more creative product future
Love the case.
Will the case fan controller work with Android tv for an operating system?
nice video ! what is the make/model of the touch screen you are using ?
Looks great 👍
i was about to buy a deskpi pro until i saw this
So, according to the DeskPi Pro product page, only M.2 SATA SSD is supported... NOT NVMe. This should be clearly stated and maybe the headline for your video shouldn't include NVMe as it is false. Otherwise, love your videos man, keep 'em coming.
My mustache is glouries then pink sheep
ETA prime is my 2nd favourite TH-camr 💖💖💖
By nvme you mean m.2 sata? I have my doubts it supports nvme drives.
hi i want to run this 24/7 for my ip camera backup. is it ok to run 24/7 ? planning to mount a 2.5 ssd or hdd
Hmm. Too bad video playback isn't there yet on the pi's else I'd love to pick one of these up.
video playback is great on mine. 4gb pi4 with little OC plays videos just fine.... but i have it set to force at 1080P only.. not designed for more than that
@@josephs1753 I watch multiple livestreams/youtube videos at once at times. Was looking at picking up an atomic pi. They seem to have a little more processing power but still probably not for my use case.
I am waiting for your review of the new DeskPi Super6C :)
So you need proper thermal paste or thermal pad for actual performance of the fan powered and copper pipe heat traveling? Metal on Metal is a horrible solution.
Neat setup and great video. Particularly liked the touch screen setup. Looked in your links but did not see it. please provide link in reply if possible.
How long did this take to come in? I just ordered one from the link in this video on the 26th of this year 2021 and hopefully I get it before christmas
Hey ETA great vid as always...I had a quick question. There's quite pi retro game images online, can you put one of those images on an ssd or nvme and boot off those?
Yes you can boot right from the ssd or m.2 . You just need the firmware to be updated to allow booting from that. Im sure there are vids on here that show you how to do just that. Been using my 2nd pi4 with an argon case that boots from an M.2 for a few months now.... works great. :-)
I can confirm you sure can. (as long as your Pi 4 EEPROM is suitably up to date)
Very nice looking, but in a similar vein to what others have said, it seems like the Argon one m.2, with its ability to use full-size hdmi and an m.2 ssd, is a better deal for $45.
DeskPi Pro with a brand new ICE Tower and QC3.0 power adapter,just $59.99
Now I really do not know, what I should need a Raspberry Pi for. I am running a silent Intel NUC i5-8259u with about 15W mean power and are satisfied.
Really wish they would produce one without the silly little adapter for using the ssd!
Interesting wifi names... 8:08
I have a question do you think these things would work with the pi 400? But do you think the other stuff that connects to the gpio?
Does it support UASP? What are SSD read and write speeds like compared to the Argon One?
not good ...I still use an external adaptor even after the updated parts arrived they missed the chance to save this thing
Got a PI 4 and this case and 240gb SSD really only put ubuntu on the drive but struggling to get the fan and the front USB ports working Linux is pretty new to me by the way.
How would you compare this to the Argon One M.2 case?
Can't wait for you to connect an external GPU to it like a RTX 3090.
Not possible.
Even if it's possible, it would be bottleneck as hell
@@microlinux If Willy Wonka could make candy out of dirt then anything is possible.
@@sgirix65 Then bottleneck TF out of it then I'm trying to run The Oregon Trail in 4K.
I want SNES, SFC, Genesis and PS1 cases -.-
Already had a pi 4b 8gb, just ordered the case, wont be here till middle of next month. :/ I been wanting to make an all-in-one type emulation box to replace some of my old consoles i got hooked up anyways but hated the idea of buying a massive sdcard or having usb drive plugged in. Now i can pop a drive in with the pi, no more usbs.
ooh tiny pi... slap on stuff to make it 4x larger hmm....
Saw this too late, i settled with a nespi setup :( great review though
Would I be crazy for wanting a real time clock battery built in to this case?
This is the same size as some mini PCs, probably not much cheaper but way less powerful.
Keep in mind that that´s nit the best desktop replacement. if you want that, use something like a Larkbox, it´s more powerfull. But if you want gpio use the pi of course
DSO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT !
I purchased two of those and none of them works.I used two RasPi-5/8Gb and none will reboot. Tried Rasbian-32/63 and Diet-Pi. There is also a problem with cooling fan, and no video (unless I pull out and reinsert HDMI cable). I have to do it every time I reboot or when the device goes to sleep. In other words - serious issues with the software. Cooling fan almost impossible to mount because of the short threads on the screws. Company completely unresponsive. It looks great, but that is the only positive thing. It simply does not work and until the software/drivers etc is updated it is simply waste of money. Customer support does not exist.
What about adding thermal past ? I was going to get the Argon ONE V2 but this one seems much better.
I wish it had an internal gpio header on the board as well. I would have added a watchdog.
What I would really like to see is someone make a pi that has a pcie hub and add support for an nvme drive and some SATA ports.
Even extending the upper and lower case halves back a bit, as in recess it all in would help cover that bodge. I'd also like a retaining screw or two so it cannot go astray, or be disturbed during use.
@@paulstubbs7678 the USB connector doesn't bother me at all. It is pretty clean. But that is a matter of taste really. I find the idea pretty good overall.
if there were an additional ethernet slots it would be a perfect firewall pc.
This is cool, can you install windows 10 onto this setup?
Is the SSD secured at all, or is it just hanging by the connector?
rewatch at 3:25. SSD is secured to the board with 4 screws the same way as in most pc cases
I was just checking the case and was deciding between Geekworm NasPi or this. Conclusion, i still don't know 😀
DeskPi Pro have been released last year,much more early than the NASPI,and have much more fuctions,the brand new ICE Tower and QC 3.0 Power adpator are included in the box
@@kevindeng1889 Thank you very much
@ETAPrime Could you test the Sata IO and temps head to head with the argon m.2 case. Then give an honest opinion based on performance and price, which is worthy?
Found one of these at a local store or something like it, what's the max ssd m.2 (this uses m.2 only) can I put for a pi 4? What's a recommendation for future and not running out of storage?
Can you copy retropi like this to an ssd? Would the speed decrease?
Your vids are top notch my man 🙏🏻
I like the concept of the case but I just can't justify buying a case that is significantly more expensive than my RPi4 (factoring in shipping and duties)
Yea I feel the same. I was about to buy this and then the price and size made me think otherwise - bought a $10 Sata to usb adapter and will likely just rubberband the ssd to the pi lol.
Ssd was 480gb nice when I heard 240 I thought it might have been a really old one.
Thanks for the review I love this case, but only thing, the cooling is far from ideal compared to my Armor Case V2.0 with single fan, I got around 40C at 2.2Ghz. Btw how do I install the SD card copier on Ubuntu-Mate, I couldn't find it in the respo. thanks !
Hi Joe, could you please share a link on where I can get the Armor Case V2.0 please? TIA
@@odhiambo0 This is the 3rd reply to you, the first one with link disappeared I believe TH-cam does not allow sending link so removed the message, actually this is not the first time happened to me. I sent another one w/o link but mentioned brand name in Amazon for you to search got removed as well nothing more I can do here sorry !
Great video thanks , what an awsome case !!
You can search 'DeskPi Pro' or "DeskPi Nano" on any Amazon Site,and can find the link to buy them.
I have already invested in a good ssd disk with USB-C interface and so I won't be able to take advantage of it to install inside the case.
Do you have any solution?
Thanks.
This is definitely a case like this one that I'll take when I'll get a Pi4
Thank you
He made an oops the raspberry pi 4 does not support NVME drives it supports M.2 SATA based ones
The regular Pi 4b supports NVME drives via USB 3.0 to NVME adapters (as far as the Pi is concerned, these are just USB external SSDs).
The Pi Compute Module 4 supports actual NVMEs plugged directly into the PCI bus.
Does this case work fully with latest Android 13 or 14 builds?
where did the giveaway list and giveaway video??
With those special scripts I wonder if it could work with VMWARE exsi.
is there a case version for the Raspberry PI Model 3b? I havent found any for my model:/
it laggs your system , hick ups , but great for ,Retro gaming, then no probs , Recalbox ;)
Have you noticed any under voltage warnings with this case?, I got mine yesterday and it is constantly showing under voltage warning, tried 3 different power supply, the one supplied in the kit, an official pi4 psu, and a geekworm 4A psu.