Raspberry Pi’s New M.2 HAT+ Compact is an SSD Space Saver

With its slimmer install footprint, smarter booting process and qualitative tweaks, Ubuntu 25.10 for Raspberry Pi is looking a real treat — but the biggest boost to performance is one you can make by switching from a microSD card to an SSD. If you own a Raspberry Pi 5 and have yet to leap to a more spacious, speedier solid-state drive, Raspberry Pi today launched the M.2 HAT+ Compact. It’s a smaller (but marginally more expensive) version of its official storage add-on for the Raspberry Pi 5. Better yet, the board with an SSD attached will fit inside of the […]

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