Penta Sata Hat on Rock 3C and Raspberry 5

#1

Hi community,
I recently bought a Penta Sata hat for Rock 3C which works fine. I’m wondering if the same HAT will work with a Raspberry 5, with a suitable FPC cable (IPEX to FPC, available from Radxa). I think it should, since the HAT simply connects to the PCIe bus. But I would appreciate any feedback before I buy a RPI5.

Thanks so much.

#2

With Pi5 it can work 2x faster (pcie3 vs 2), when used with active cooler You need to strip piece of heatsink for it.
With Rock 3A/3B it can use full pcie bandwidth, being 2x faster than pi5.

#3

Thank you dominik!