This section contains all of our HATs and add-on boards that allow you to add fast SSD storage to your Raspberry Pi. SSD storage comes in a few flavours, so make sure you check which type the add-on is compatible with.

Best HAT for beginners: Raspberry Pi Sense HAT; Best HAT for kids: Adafruit Capacitive Touch; Best HAT for advanced projects: SunFounder Robot HAT; Best HAT for performance boost: Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT

Mar 12, 2025 · To help you choose, we’ve listed the best Raspberry Pi HATs that we have personally tested, grouped by their use case. These expansion boards can be used for everything from general learning...

An NVMe SSD can be installed on Raspberry Pi 5 and Pi 4 with a special case, M.2 HAT, expansion board, or USB enclosure. The Pi’s boot configuration and boot order must be modified to use an NVMe.

ROCK Pi Dual/Quad SATA HAT is an addon HAT designed for Raspberry Pi 4. It utilizes the high-speed USB3 buses on Raspberry Pi 4 and providing a complete NAS solution based on Raspberry Pi 4. It has the following features: Up to 4x HDD/SSD, support 2.5inch or 3.5inch SSD Utilize two independent USB3 buses on Raspberry Pi 4

The Dual SATA HAT utilizes two high-performance JMS561 (one JMS561 for the Dual SATA HAT) and provides up to 400MB/s read/write performance with four disks in RAID0 mode. Hardware Overview Part List

With the PCIe interface now found on the Raspberry Pi 5, SSD storage is as popular as ever, with even faster speeds made possible by using NVMe M.2 drives via PCIe, utilising SSD HATs such as the Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+.

Oct 18, 2020 · Looking to remove one more speed bottleneck from your Raspberry Pi server? Me, too! That’s why I looked into SSD hard drive technology, specifically an M.2 drive, for my Raspberry Pi 4. The Pi4 has two USB3 sockets and I really wanted to take advantage of its interface speed. Those little blue sockets hold big secrets.