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

hey what's going on everybody it's eta prime back here again today we're going to be taking a look at two awesome single board computer cases for two of my favorite single board computers that have ever hit the market first up we have the all new desk pi pro version 2 for the raspberry pi 4. i've taken a look at version 1 but they've made some changes and the next one we're going to take a look at is the desk pi pro for the jetson nano if you're not familiar with the nano i've done several videos on it this just happens to have an aftermarket cooler on it but this is a great little single board computer for ai and you can turn it right into a desktop i'll leave some links to videos i created in the description so the first one we're going to be assembling here is the desk by pro for the raspberry pi 4. this is the version 2 of the desk pi pro yes i've taken a look at version 1 but they have made enough changes that i figured it would be worth taking another look at this when it comes to the version for the jets and nano i'm not going to do an assembly in this video but we will take a look at a few of the steps and the finished product so inside of the box of the v2 desk pi pro you're obviously going to get the enclosure we also get a nice little heat sink here dual copper heat pipes and an updrafting fan this is going to vent all of the heat out of the case they've also included a 5 volt 3 amp power supply we get all of our screws all of our adapters and everything like that because this does add some really good functionality to the raspberry pi 4. like the option to add either an nvme ssd or 2.5 inch ssd and it also swaps out those micro hdmi ports that are on the raspberry pi 4 for full size hdmi ports along with all the gear that you need to assemble this with it also comes with a really nice manual tells you how to do everything there is a script we need to install for the safe shutdown and reset switch plus the variable fan that we have here now with this setup here i'm going to go with the 2.5 inch ssd because i don't have any extra nvme drives laying around but keep in mind it does support nvme by the end of this video i'll also show you how to easily transfer your operating system from the sd card over to your new drive so first things first we need to install this heatsink it's actually a pretty massive heatsink when it comes to a raspberry pi so uh overclocking this isn't going to be any issue got the heatsink in place next we need our micro sd card adapter because this does take that micro sd card to the exterior of the case makes it a lot easier to get to all of the hardware is included to mount everything up i'm going to go ahead and do that off camera and we'll be right back so now that we've got the heatsink and the sd card adapter mounted on the raspberry pi 4 it's time to install our gpio extender it's just going to plug right into the gpio pins on the pi we also have a little divider here which just allows that ribbon cable we're going to be using to sit on top of the usb without being interfered with now that we have everything attached to the raspberry pi we can go ahead and plug it right into this main pcb just going to line it up with that 3.5 millimeter audio jack micro hdmi and usb type c we'll also need to plug in our ribbon cable for our gpio because this is going to be external gpio now and it'll give us access to all of the pins we have one more ribbon cable we need to plug in and that's going to be our sd card ribbon cable once that's finished up it's time to turn our attention to the drive bay or the drive pcb there's an adapter on top here that can be removed this is the nvme ssd adapter but if we just take this out with the four screws on the back we can install a 2.5 inch ssd i initially was going to go with an nvme but i don't have any extras laying around and i had this 240 gigabyte pny ready to go so i've just mounted it with the four screws it's going to lay right here on top there are four little pins that need to line up on the bottom pcb they'll plug directly in but this is going to be held down with four screws to those standoffs so now i've got everything ready to go inside of the case i have my heatsink mounted i've got my heatsink fan plugged in sd card adapter and i have that ssd installed as you can see it just kind of sandwiches together and it's going to slide right into the aluminum enclosure and from here you might have to wiggle it just a bit you're going to mount this in with the screws on the bottom this is not going to go anywhere at all and once i have those screws in i can put on my front and back plate really easy to do it's going to line up just make sure they're in the correct orientation and in order for the pie to communicate with the ssd or nvme depending on what you installed we're going to be working over usb 3.0 so we have this little u-shaped adapter and the front and the back plate are going to be secured with two allen keys on each side so we have a total of four and they do include the correct size wrench in the packaging and once it's assembled it'll look something like this we have our power button micro sd card which is something i'm not going to be using after i get my operating system installed to the internal drive and two usb 2.0 ports moving around back we have our usb type-c for power in two full-size hdmi ports full access to the gpio pins two free usb 2.0 ports we have one free usb 3.0 port our gigabit ethernet and right in the middle we do have that 3.5 millimeter audio jack ready to go one of the easiest ways that i've found of getting my operating system installed on another drive is to boot it directly up from an sd card running your choice operating system in my case it's going to be raspberry pi os okay so first things first let's go ahead and get our operating system transferred over to our new drive like i mentioned i have that 480 gigabyte ssd installed in this thing and i'm running my operating system right now from a micro sd card so this is really easy to do but i recommend you update before you do anything from here you can just type in the easy commands to update your raspberry pi's operating system once you know you're fully updated we're going to head to the raspberry pi logo accessories sd card copier and copy from device is going to be our sd card copy 2 device is going to be our ssd so i'm going to copy what i have right now running on my micro sd card to my ssd make sure you have the correct drives chosen here i'm going to choose start and now it's going to copy that right over to the ssd for me it could take a little while depending on the speed of your sd card and your other drive now that i'm finished i'm just going to click ok close i'm going to shut this down remove my sd card and now i'm going to be booting from that ssd i just copied everything over to now we've got a raspberry pi 4 booting from an ssd or an nvme drive in our desk pi case now what you need to do is install their scripts this is going to allow you to control the fan it's also going to give you a full functionality on that power and reset button head over to their website this works for raspberry pi os ubuntu mate manjaro twister os 64-bit raspberry pi diet pi os i mean they've tried to get as many as they can in here so find your correct operating system and in my case it's raspberry pi os and i'm going to go ahead and install this so you can actually just copy and paste right in the terminal it's going to make it a lot easier and finally we need to install that script that we just downloaded my system is going to reboot in five seconds and i'm fully set up here so yeah overall in my testing this has worked out great and i'm just connected to a little portable touch monitor that's why you see so many cables here i got touch and power going to the monitor and since we're booting from an ssd load times are going to dramatically be decreased and it really depends on what kind of ssd or nvme you're running but uh with this one here and that pny it loads up a lot faster than if i was to run from a micro sd and this is a touch monitor that's why i don't have a keyboard or anything hooked up the fan speed is actually set to come on at 55 degrees celsius which keeps this nice and cool i've done some tests but you can set this up to come on at higher or lower temperatures it's really up to you and when it comes to wi-fi given that we have this aluminum case i personally haven't noticed any degradation in my connection but then again throughout my house i have pretty good wi-fi coverage and by the way i do have this raspberry pi 4 overclocked to 2.1 gigahertz but i did some testing at the stock clocks versus 2.1 and overall we're good on the temperature here i ran a 10 minute stress test i used stress berry at 2.1 gigahertz after 10 minutes with all four cores maxed out we only hit 57 degrees celsius at 1.5 we only hit 53 and like i mentioned this fan comes on at 55 degrees celsius so at 1.5 we didn't even have that fan going but as soon as we hit that 55 degree celsius mark with that 2.1 gigahertz overclock the fan did come on and kept it nice and cool so in the end i'm a big fan of the desk pi pro version 2 be it for the raspberry pi 4 or even the jets and nano i did assemble this it works just like the raspberry pi version we have a couple scripts that we can install and it just keeps it in a nice little clean package when it comes to the version for the raspberry pi 4 it does add a lot of extra functionality like those full-size hdmi ports around the back i was not a big fan of the micro hdmi that's included with the raspberry pi 4. i have tons of regular hdmi cables and this will allow me to use them it comes with that heatsink with an adjustable threshold external access to the raspberry pi's gpio external access to that micro sd card and we always have that safe shutdown and reset button built into this thing so if you're looking for an all-around great case for your raspberry pi 4 and you're definitely going to be adding an ssd or nvme i would take a look at this i'll leave a few links in the description but overall i do think it's a really nice setup for the raspberry pi and now that we have one for the jets and nano we actually have a decent case for this thing but that's gonna wrap it up for this one really appreciate you watching i will leave some links in the description to the case and the ssd that i used if you have any questions let me know in the comments below but like always thanks for watching

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Id: T9gewxW9zVY

Length: 10min 13sec (613 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 22 2021