This Awesome Pi4 Case Just Got Better! 2.5" SSD Or NVME Support!

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This is the all-new DeskPi Pro V2 and it turns your Raspberry pi 4 into an awesome NUC style desktop computer with support for NVMe SSD or 2.5” SSD plus it adds a safe shutdown/Rest button and it comes with an amazing little heatsink that will allow you to overclock you pi4 without any overheating.
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@Uniblab8 2 жыл бұрын

These cases for SBs are getting better and better and they all tend to add more functionality to the boards. Good stuff.

@yourex1363 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Ricko65 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@ericandrews4861 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@j.cockrum64 2 жыл бұрын

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...

@firstname3219 2 жыл бұрын

same. now stuck with a $50 card i can't use...

@David_Granger 2 жыл бұрын

Your can use these nvme drives on your PC externally, or even internally if it has an M.2 slot.

@chj915 2 жыл бұрын

it's a joy watching all kinds of Pi cases

@AlexandreZandaoDrummond 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent analysis of DeskPi Pro V2!

@JohnnyJTav 2 жыл бұрын

Finally received the Update Kit sent to me after a Month in USPS Never-Never Land. Works Great.

@RustyBrakes 2 жыл бұрын

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

@kevindeng1889 2 жыл бұрын

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

@harrisonknox1637 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@juandenz2008 2 жыл бұрын

(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).

@TallneApe 2 жыл бұрын

@@juandenz2008 At least he dosnt call wallpapers a screensaver

@Sparks52 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@Bianchi77 2 жыл бұрын

Nice info, thanks for sharing it:)

@Sparks52 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@IRWPD 2 жыл бұрын

That is one nice case for sure.

@Avaloniac 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@kevindeng1889 2 жыл бұрын

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

@sseb22 2 жыл бұрын

This is definitely a case like this one that I'll take when I'll get a Pi4 Thank you

@DragonNova 2 жыл бұрын

Looks great 👍

@kev1959in 2 жыл бұрын

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 .

@sinisterpisces 2 жыл бұрын

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. :)

@kev1959in 2 жыл бұрын

@@sinisterpisces If I remember now,I am sure you have to edit boot.config. Something about "Wayland" but you had better Google

@northsouthy74 2 жыл бұрын

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 ;)

@richardwicks4190 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@YourFriendCaspian 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@southpole76 2 жыл бұрын

if they added a breakout HDMI input port for the camera port so you can do HDMI video capture this thing would be perfect

@odhiambo0 2 жыл бұрын

I am waiting for your review of the new DeskPi Super6C :)

@nickchen2030 2 жыл бұрын

Your vids are top notch my man 🙏🏻

@johnpalmer5131 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@yourex1363 2 жыл бұрын

Duuuuude that's way better then the argon m.2 case finally a proper heat sink

@neversaynever5157 2 жыл бұрын

Great video thanks , what an awsome case !!

@kevindeng1889 2 жыл бұрын

You can search 'DeskPi Pro' or "DeskPi Nano" on any Amazon Site,and can find the link to buy them.

@100AVRAAM 2 жыл бұрын

It's NICE 👍

@HVG67 2 жыл бұрын

Installing a heatsink without using the heatsink sticker is tight!

@deanlawson6880 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@kevindeng1889 2 жыл бұрын

@snowmcsnow4732 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome case but at that price point, I would make my own from scratch.

@snowmcsnow4732 2 жыл бұрын

@Brian Babin Thanks for the recommendation, I was looking at them and they certainly seem to have come a long way!

@johanarens9798 2 жыл бұрын

nice video ! what is the make/model of the touch screen you are using ?

@keebroll3388 2 жыл бұрын

Saw this too late, i settled with a nespi setup :( great review though

@manuelsen3180 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing !

@tech1238 2 жыл бұрын

thanks man, very cool !

@lil_floofer 2 жыл бұрын

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?!

@divad295 2 жыл бұрын

Love the case. Will the case fan controller work with Android tv for an operating system?

@Vaughnboilore 2 жыл бұрын

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

@epsylonll4105 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@Jin17104 2 жыл бұрын

All man had no idea that this existed thanks man

@surieloverdose9230 2 жыл бұрын

i love mini pcs

@ScalaDesigner 2 жыл бұрын

Ey, out of curiosity what micro are you using? btw, I have pro case and is rock solid ! Thks

@xAUSTIN316x 2 жыл бұрын

What about adding thermal past ? I was going to get the Argon ONE V2 but this one seems much better.

@hamster0147 Жыл бұрын

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.

@jamescorvus6709 2 жыл бұрын

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

@docdhaenens2 2 жыл бұрын

have you tried retro/batocera on an old all in one pc?

@wigrif923 2 жыл бұрын

@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?

@esra_erimez 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, these are awesome.

@Kuratius 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@paulstubbs7678 2 жыл бұрын

Looks nice, suprised by the WiFi, but that stupid little loopback on the back pannel really spoils it.

@mikewilson6940 2 жыл бұрын

It's a shame this thing doesn't tick the VESA mount box. I love the look of it

@AlexanderEinoder 2 жыл бұрын

if this had an inbuilt small screen itd be rad

@kevindeng1889 2 жыл бұрын

May be next version will be support.

@jierenzheng7670 2 жыл бұрын

This is cool, can you install windows 10 onto this setup?

@aarons7135 2 жыл бұрын

Would I be crazy for wanting a real time clock battery built in to this case?

@benjiang2600 2 жыл бұрын

It doesn't look like it's NVME compatible. It's just a M.2 SATA to 2.5" adapter.

@DavidSiebert 2 жыл бұрын

That is what I thought as well.

@PrinceAlberts 2 жыл бұрын

It is. I bought a cheap WD SATA 6 drive for mine and it works great.

@LunatiqHigh 2 жыл бұрын

I doubt the pi can handle the bandwidth of NVME anyways

@benjiang2600 2 жыл бұрын

@@LunatiqHigh well the regular pi simply doesn't have pcie compatibility. The CM4 has pcie support but yes at a very limited bandwidth.

@radry100 2 жыл бұрын

It's still just hooked up to USB 3.

@KAPhotography 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Amanullah-dx5uy 2 жыл бұрын

That smol heat sink is cute

@GforceMI1965 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@RNBYT97 2 жыл бұрын

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?

@josephs1753 2 жыл бұрын

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. :-)

@PiMania 2 жыл бұрын

I can confirm you sure can. (as long as your Pi 4 EEPROM is suitably up to date)

@munkiking4511 2 жыл бұрын

Really wish they would produce one without the silly little adapter for using the ssd!

@nsvaluto48328 2 жыл бұрын

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?

@EmilePolka 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@testosteroneinc.3800 2 жыл бұрын

Coolness factor 😌

@BrianBoniMakes 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@lionelt.9124 2 жыл бұрын

It may be too low volume to amortize tooling costs as ATX and especially MATX.

@microlinux 2 жыл бұрын

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)

@microlinux 2 жыл бұрын

@@BrianBoniMakes then rpi4 isnt the most efficient neither being 28 nm.

@TTLDNS 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@kevindeng1889 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!DeskPi team will release much more creative product future

@yogaathebass 2 жыл бұрын

I don't really understand but i just enjoy your presentation...

@worldgate989 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@SapphireDragonGaming 2 жыл бұрын

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?

@matthewwyers4342 2 жыл бұрын

Ssd was 480gb nice when I heard 240 I thought it might have been a really old one.

@TheSocialGamer 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@ch_oke 2 жыл бұрын

i was about to buy a deskpi pro until i saw this

@Joe__Tech 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@frankrowland63 2 жыл бұрын

is there a US distributer 3 weeks is a bit of a wait for shipping

@gamershubgamershub8851 2 жыл бұрын

great video. appreciate if you can provide all the links where you bought the materials used.

@madhavregmi8297 2 жыл бұрын

My mustache is glouries then pink sheep ETA prime is my 2nd favourite KZfaqr 💖💖💖

@jesse72038 2 жыл бұрын

Can you copy retropi like this to an ssd? Would the speed decrease?

@thescinema 7 ай бұрын

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.

@christelting1359 2 жыл бұрын

With those special scripts I wonder if it could work with VMWARE exsi.

@nathanruben3372 2 жыл бұрын

if there were an additional ethernet slots it would be a perfect firewall pc.

@kenhaley4 2 жыл бұрын

How would you compare this to the Argon One M.2 case?

@jamesyoung6878 2 жыл бұрын

You can just flash Raspbian directly to the ssd - no copying needed.

@electricspider2267 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@IIIIRokzIIII 2 жыл бұрын

Yes please! Internal UPS support!

@sokoloft3 2 жыл бұрын

Hmm. Too bad video playback isn't there yet on the pi's else I'd love to pick one of these up.

@josephs1753 2 жыл бұрын

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

@sokoloft3 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@andrewdupuis1151 Жыл бұрын

i want get one sometime

@TomNook. 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@nIgnasn 2 жыл бұрын

Why would you go with nvme ssd when it’s pluged in into sata as sata -> nvme adapter. Does not make sense

@fffrrraannkk 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@SchnoekerOriginal 2 жыл бұрын

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

@lockiephoto6343 2 жыл бұрын

the scripts that you run to control fan speed ect. can you install those controls running Batocera in the script window?

@WilliamLeBreton-zl8bm 10 ай бұрын

what's the point of the dongle thing you plug onto the usb port on the back?

@javierventura 2 жыл бұрын

Where can I buy the nvme pcie to sata adapter? Thanks.

@amjpais 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@gamerneversleep4200 2 жыл бұрын

where did the giveaway list and giveaway video??

@kleev6576 2 жыл бұрын

I want SNES, SFC, Genesis and PS1 cases -.-

@coolie3514 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@getdrinking 2 жыл бұрын

It doesnt support nvme. Nvme requires pci express lanes to work. This has none. It supports m.2 sata

@user-fp6hs2zp6t 2 жыл бұрын

Am I the only one who wonders how this 240gb ssd turned into a 480gb one?🤔

@krisshietala2119 2 жыл бұрын

Running dual channel xd

@mishayt1989 2 жыл бұрын

He probably installed one and had the other one as a example

@thimblemunch24 2 жыл бұрын

Just download more space

@LunatiqHigh 2 жыл бұрын

he mentions it's now a 480Gb @ around 5 min in

@bufordmaddogtannen 2 жыл бұрын

Microsoft DriveSpace. 😂🤣

@markanthonysantos3272 2 жыл бұрын

would look really great if they have the option of a vertical mount stand...

@My1xT 2 жыл бұрын

didnt nvme have the cutout on the right rather than left?

@rayhazar2430 2 жыл бұрын

nice , ssd support for DeskPi nano as well ?

@Vaughnboilore 2 жыл бұрын

What script do we install at the end to download? I didn’t see anything in the video downloaded other than piOS????

@LiLBitsDK 2 жыл бұрын

ooh tiny pi... slap on stuff to make it 4x larger hmm....

@petruccilewis 2 жыл бұрын

I wish I could get my hands on a pi4 and one of those

@walkerd2997 2 жыл бұрын

Stephen from the Verge would be so happy that an allen key was used to build this case

@doriang509 Жыл бұрын

is there a case version for the Raspberry PI Model 3b? I havent found any for my model:/

@Bonswally 2 жыл бұрын

By nvme you mean m.2 sata? I have my doubts it supports nvme drives.

@covertpluto 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting wifi names... 8:08