Fixing the biggest flaws of the Raspberry Pi 4

Stuff I used in the video.

Argon One M.2 Aluminum Case

Argon ONE V2 without M.2

Argon 3A Power Supply (USB C)

1TB M.2 SATA SSD

Western Digital 1TB M.2 SATA SSD

RIITOP M.2 Docking Station

Cheaper M.2 USB Alternative

Raspberry Pi 4 (Ouch)

Raspberry Pi 400 - A better deal at publishing time to be honest

Panavise 350

Hakko FX-888d

[GadgetReboot]

I now need one of those cases.
And an M.2 reader.
And a pi4 for that matter.

[iam.jasonhoward]

Cool video. Argon 40 cases are my favorite. Quick tip, if you need labels for GPIO pins, type “pinout” in the terminal.

[SortofGoodwithTech]

At this point I’d buy a mini desktop pc they can do the same thing with barely any modifications and they can be cheap if you find them used a lot of the time they’re faster then the pi 4

[sparkyprojects]

Nice neat case
I'm not currently a pi user, though i bought one for a project years ago
The main thing i didn't like abut it was that the connectors were all around the board, no organisation
I recently saw a vid about the rock pi 5, and really like the set up

[samshort]

I have two RPis dedicated to RISCOS 5.28. That, unfortunately, is not something you can do with any mini PC or most SBC. So, learning about new options is always a good thing.

[MegaManNeo]

The biggest issue is the availability.
I have two Pi 4s of which one sits inside my DIY NAS on a 3D printed PCI bracket doing backup tasks there such as acting as second DNS.

I have another one which I'd actually love to put inside that Argon case with or without M2 slot but I too want to use it inside a C64 I had a Pi 3 set up with.

Hope the Foundation gets things fixed again in the near future because doing projects with those SBCs is really fun.

[-Sin-z]

4:15I see what u did there😂 very subtle. But obviously i cant tell you what was very subtle5:30

[alanb]

Plenty of Pi's now! Good video. Great case.

[MrJozza]

I have the original Argon One case for my Pi4 which runs Octoprint, and it's been performing great the last couple of years. Shame that you have to have a M.2 SATA SSD with that case, as I have a couple of NVMe SSD drives from PCs which I upgraded, and they would be perfect as upgrades for my other 2 Pi 4's, which I luckily got a couple of years ago before the shortages. I know there would be no speed advantage, but the drives would essentially be free for people in that position.

[AJBK]

I have the Argon case as well, nice and clean unit

[pgtmr]

When it comes to micro hdmi solutions, the wires are better than the adapters. The adapters like to break easily. I've even had a bad adapter mangle an micro hdmi 0 port on the pi itself. I've had very good results with Samsung BAR and Fit, USB flash memory for boot. 128GB and 256GB worked well. 64GB ones seemed to get hotter and not work as well for me, longevity wise. It's anecdotal. More issues at the limit of overclock and USB power. No noticeable difference between the flash and ssd.

I had hope about PI's being in stock when I got one in July. Something went wrong, and that one became the first to pop. Overclocked to the limit and plugging in USBs something gave. Will not even run off GPIO 5V battery. I still haven't been able to replace that one yet. Spare parts now 😅

[youmhz]

yes this case design is optimal but what it needs is an indicator light of at least it is powered on
I have the first design and I also have the 2.0 version which is the M.2 version ...

[nkkri]

I have been having no luck getting HDMI audio on my TV. I do have it only with on board raspberry pi board. (tried both HDMI ports)
So far when using the Raspberry Pi Imager program to install the OS, only the older "Legacy" versions include HDMI audio
as a choice either from the Speaker ICON or from terminal typing sudo raspi-config and going to audio and select HDMI. All the latest versions I have tried do not offer
HDMI as a choice. With the Legacy, once I make sure HDMI is chosen, I go into the Terminal mode and type sudo nano /boot/config.txt scroll down to hdmi_drive 2 and remove the "#" before it. Reboot and audio is on the HDMI line to my TV. Something must not be installed on newer versions could be the reason HDMI is not
a choice for audio.

[KashifSMalik]

what a stellar product design. somebody really put a thought into designing this case; and did a thorough job at that. nice video, to-the-point and well put together. the algorithm gave me something useful for a change.

[MotownBatman]

I wanted the Argon case so Bad for my RPi3, but I never got it, Once My daughter and I got matching RPi4's from Santa 2 years ago, We got matching Kits with the Argon M.2, We Love Em

[Aurum]

Is it smart to have the RP OS on a Micro SD while storing everything else on the M.2?

[jupiter_ki]

super smooth bro👌🏾👌🏾, preciate the site link

[gedgicat]

Please fix the USB 3 port noise which effects the 2.4gb range for WiFi, blutooth, IOT, 3rd party keyboards

[jyvben]

sdcard, use a convertor to emmc which plugs into sdcard slot (rockpi), speed is decided by sdcard system probably.
for silent cooling fan see Garatronic (France) (skipped video when mentioning gpio needs documentation, yeah)

[Razor_Burn]

Thanks for sharing a super helpful video and I agree with your points 💯 as it really needs 1 x full HDMI, installing a fan takes up space and although you can always use a case such as this one from Argon which doesn't come without its own issues and it ain't cheap but the Pi4B still ranks well against newer SBCs from the competition - that's if you're lucky to buy one for an affordable price. 👌