Raspberry Pi 5 (16GB)

I’m completely new to the Raspberry Pi world, and as a first-time user who had never touched one before, there are several points worth mentioning. The box it comes in is poor—an ultra thin cardboard that provides no real protection; just a small, hollow, flimsy box with the board inside, and it didn’t even include an anti-static bag. I feel it should come in a more rigid and secure packaging. When I powered it on inside the Pironman 5 Max case, everything ran smoothly. It was easy to set up, and I reached the desktop quickly. That said, the hardware is extremely delicate. Anything installed incorrectly can cause a lot of problems. I had to reinstall the operating system because I couldn’t find a way to fix the issues it caused. It works perfectly for retro games, basic browsing, and typical computer use—just more limited in almost every aspect. It’s definitely powerful and viable for DIY projects, and even if you want to use it for more serious tasks, it’s reliable as long as you take good care of the entire system. Recommended.

Really good product. Works great and does exactly what I needed. Easy to set up and runs smoothly. Definitely great value for what I paid. Very satisfied with the purchase.

I've been using the Raspberry Pi (RPi) for a long time, since 2016, so I've seen the evolution of the product line. I've been impressed with them for certain things since I started using them, and each time it's had a new version release I've liked the direction they've been headed. The RPi 5 has been no exception to this. I've got a 4GB version and and 8GB version. Frankly, the 8GB version is powerful enough that many people could replace their old Windows 10 PCs with it. I use that one on a 4k TV for web browsing and document editing when my wife and I need to work on something together, and it's got plenty of speed. I've been playing with this 16GB version at work and been really, REALLY happy with it. I've been wanting to just go hog-wild on an RPi build for a while, and I just had a little win fall come my way, so I pulled the trigger. I got a crazy-expensive (but super-cool) case that moves the side ports to the end of the build with the USB and ethernet ports and includes an NVMe SSD adapter, extra fans, and RGB LEDs that are programable. I really splurged on the SSD and installed a full 1TB. I'm going to experiment with this one to see if it's actually powerful enough with the extra RAM to do some basic audio engineering (I am a sound engineer). If it is, I'll use it for that. Either way, I'll also use it as a portable media server, too. I'm going to see just how far I can push this thing and see if it will work as a video editing system, as well. I have friends that make YouTube videos, and if this is a viable option as an editing system, it would make a phenomenal portable alternative to a laptop. I'll report back after I've pushed it.

It's a raspberry Pi 5 16MB. Expensive: check (once you add NVME etc, NUC PC prices are similar) Overkill for many applications: check. From a company that doesn't care about its users, and proved it all along during covid only selling to industry contracts and nothing to the users who made them? check again. Yet, it's a great little device. It works, has tons of support... I run one for Home Assistant with a Pimoroni nvme board and a 1TB cheap NVME. Similar for a Voron 2.4 printer (not a great idea as USB webcams and Klipper don't do that well on the Pi5, a Pi4 or Pi3 is better for that application). I've had many Pi from 1 to 5, and if you don't want to waste time, these work. Recommendation: do not pay more than MSRP, you can always find these.

This is a fantastic little computer! It was super simple to set up and use. The speed is so much faster than our old RPi computers. Everything works as it should and everything we needed came in the package.

I've been working with Raspberry Pi's since they first came out and the RPi 5 with a SSD finally approaches a standard desktop for speed and computational power. Raspbian Trixie plus Visual Studio Code make a fine development platform. I've moved all my Pico development from Windows 10 to the RPi 5. It's also the case that the graphics hardware on the RPi 5 can support *two* 5120x1440 monitors. This matches or exceeds the best available on a traditional PC. They've gotten a little pricey what with AI gobbling up all the RAM but it's worth it.

I bought this because TeamViewer started to suck and I wanted to setup my own RustDesk relay to remote into my various computers that i use for work and entertainment/gaming. It works amazingly for this. I think spending ~$200 on a server just for that is a bit much, so I also am using it as a home media server and purchased a case/cooler/HAT combo to accommodate an NVMe. I love this and it was a fun project to setup and get running. Good introductory server for someone that's (like me) somewhat IT inclined but doesn't have a degree in IT or work in the field. Something I was surprised about initially when I got into this is that this is a headless server, meaning that there is no GUI - you essentially remote into the server from a computer (Windows for me, but Mac would be fine, too) via the ssh command in a terminal. No heat sink is provided so, again, buy a case that suits your needs.

Had to wait almost a month to get it! There must be a shortage on the 16GB version. The box that it came in was not sealed and had been opened before. I'm not sure if it was a returned item. So far, I haven't found anything wrong with it. It appears to be working properly. It's a cool little Linux machine! It's great for learning Linux! I recommend this product!

J'ai pris la version 16 Go pour en faire un petit serveur maison à côté de mon mini PC principal. Je m'attendais à un gadget sympa, au final c'est devenu un pilier de mon installation. Les perfs m'ont scotché. J'ai lancé des benchmarks (sysbench) par curiosité et par cœur ce truc tape plus fort que mes serveurs cloud qui me coûtent 30€ par mois chacun. Évidemment avec 4 cœurs on fait pas tourner 15 machines virtuelles dessus, mais pour héberger quelques services (DNS, monitoring, conteneurs Docker), c'est largement surdimensionné. La version 16 Go apporte aussi un vrai gain en bande passante mémoire par rapport à la 8 Go, quasiment le double dans mes tests. Gros point d'attention : L'ALIMENTATION. J'ai d'abord branché un chargeur USB-C que j'avais dans un tiroir. Résultat, le Pi se bridait sous charge, les performances étaient incohérentes, je comprenais pas pourquoi. C'est en passant à l'alim officielle 27W que tout s'est débloqué. Performances stables, plus de throttling. C'est 15€ de plus mais si vous alimentez ce Pi avec un vieux chargeur de téléphone vous passez à côté de la moitié de la machine. Vraiment, ne faites pas l'économie. Pour le stockage j'ai mis un SSD NVMe dans le boîtier Argon NEO (qui a un slot M.2 2230 intégré, super pratique). Petit conseil au passage : par défaut le Pi5 démarre en PCIe Gen 2, il faut rajouter une ligne dans le config.txt pour passer en Gen 3 sinon vous perdez quasiment la moitié du débit séquentiel. C'est pas documenté de manière évidente et ça change tout. Mon SSD est un modèle d'entrée de gamme sans cache DRAM, du coup les accès aléatoires sont un peu limités. Si vous comptez faire tourner des bases de données ou beaucoup de petits fichiers, investissez dans un NVMe avec DRAM dès le départ, ça vaut le coup. Le boîtier Argon NEO est compact et bien fini, le slot NVMe intégré évite d'empiler des HAT. Pas grand chose à redire dessus. Et la consommation. Environ 8W en charge. Ça tourne 24h/24 chez moi et ça se voit pas sur la facture. Quand je compare avec mon mini PC qui tire 35W, le ratio performance par watt est juste imbattable. Bref si vous cherchez un petit serveur sobre et silencieux, prenez la version 16 Go, l'alim officielle, et un boîtier avec NVMe. Vous serez surpris de ce que ce petit machin peut faire. Pour les experts : résultats sysbench sous Ubuntu, alim officielle 27W, NVMe sans DRAM en PCIe Gen 3. CPU (4 threads, prime 20000, 60s) : 4 242 ev/s total, soit 1 038 ev/s par cœur. Latence avg 0,94ms, max 8,04ms, stddev 26. Les 4 cœurs sont parfaitement homogènes. Mémoire (4 threads, block 1M, total 32G) : 45 572 MiB/s en bande passante. Latence avg 0,09ms, max 1,00ms. Quasi le double de la version 8 Go sur le même test. Disque (4 threads, rndrw, fichier 8G) : 521 MiB/s en séquentiel, 42,59 MiB/s en lecture random, 28,40 MiB/s en écriture random. Le bottleneck c'est clairement le SSD DRAM-less, pas le bus PCIe. Avec un NVMe correct attendez-vous à 4-5x en random.

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Excellent product, good design with vast amount of open-source support and a global user community. Dispatched quickly and well packaged.

I’m really impressed with the Raspberry Pi 5! It works like a charm. I’m using it for programming in both JavaScript and Java, and I opted for the Ubuntu version. Everything runs smoothly, and performance is excellent. Overall, I’m very pleased with this purchase and would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a reliable, versatile mini-computer.

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