Geekworm P173 Heavy Duty Passive Cooling… vs Argon ONE M.2 SATA Expansion Board for Raspberry… — Head-to-Head (2026)

Our verdict

Argon ONE M.2 SATA Expansion Board for Raspberry… is our pick.

For a Raspberry Pi 4 that actually runs a workload — a NAS, Home Assistant box, Pi-hole with logging, or a self-hosted app server — the Argon ONE M.2 SATA board wins, because swapping the microSD card for an M.2 SATA SSD over USB 3.0 with UASP removes the single biggest bottleneck and failure point in the entire platform.

Buy the Geekworm P173 Heavy Duty Passive Cooling Aluminum Case if you want a silent, sealed, 174-gram fanless enclosure for a Pi 4 that runs headless in a dusty closet, a workshop, or a fanless signage/kiosk role — and you're booting from a good microSD or already have external storage sorted. Buy the Argon ONE M.2 SATA Expansion Board (ONE V2 only) if your Pi 4 does real read/write work — Home Assistant with a recorder database, Nextcloud, Plex metadata, Docker hosts, Pi-hole with long query logs — and you're tired of microSD cards dying or crawling.

SpecPicks editorial verdict, written June 5, 2026. Prices move, so check the current price on each listing before you buy.