Water Block for M.2 SSD?

[Arsenious]

9 hours ago, Saksham said:

i vividly remember gamers nexus and jays2cents and some other youtuber specifically saying that the nand likes cold, but controller likes heat (or vice versa i dont remember).

One simple rule out of the physics book... SEMICONDUCTORS LOVE BEING COOL. okay? 

[Arsenious]

4 hours ago, MaratM said:

I've ordered one a few days ago from aliexpress, I have samsung 950 and it is known to get toasty, I also need it for the tube run. Probbably a copper/aluminium heatsink will work just as well but why not?

Lmao your HTPC has more storage than a decent NAS. HAHAHA

[MaratM]

5 hours ago, Arsenious said:

Lmao your HTPC has more storage than a decent NAS. HAHAHA

It is not for htpc, it is for full size build (x58 untill this waterblock arrives)

this is the rig this waterblock goes into

and this is an upgrade for this rig (not the 1080 unfortunatly)

[Benjeh]

13 hours ago, knightslugger said:

well you're not going to get that using water, i guarantee you that... you want 100% silence? use solid state solutions. 

weird.... as my pc is on my desk, i can reach into it, i can't hear it. Am I going deaf? I really don't understand why people believe that watercooling can't be silent without being pedantic about it, it has fans and moving parts it must make noise right? Well sure but then there is also ambient noise, if my pc outputs a lower dB than my environment then to me it's going to be silent. My pump is rubber mounted and on the lowest setting, my fans are on the lowest speed and i have massive rads to allow for this you see? I can hear the buzzing from my tv screen over my pc. Hope that helps. Also have you seen ant's vid about his pc?

 

1 minute ago, MaratM said:

*PICS OF SEXY BUILD*

 

Oh my *fans self*

[Mick Naughty]

I was gonna buy one and try it. But can’t even get windows installed on it. 

And would throw off the look of my loop which has been the only decent once I’ve made. 

[TheBean]

15 hours ago, Arsenious said:

One simple rule out of the physics book... SEMICONDUCTORS LOVE BEING COOL. okay? 

go to 11:20

 

[TheBean]

quoting GN "Yes, the controller wants to be cold, but the flash actually wants to be warm. And by reducing temperature too much, you technically shorten its life."

[DesolationGod]

i had no idea this was a thing... Lol

[MaratM]

3 hours ago, Saksham said:

quoting GN "Yes, the controller wants to be cold, but the flash actually wants to be warm. And by reducing temperature too much, you technically shorten its life."

It is possible to install the thermal pad ontop of the controller and double sided tape on top of the flash, this way you kill two birds with one shot)

[Arsenious]

4 hours ago, Saksham said:

quoting GN "Yes, the controller wants to be cold, but the flash actually wants to be warm. And by reducing temperature too much, you technically shorten its life."

So in short, you DON'T NEED TO WATERCOOL IT. Just ensure a good airflow over it. 

[Mick Naughty]

You don’t “need” to water cooler anything if that’s the case. Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t. 

[TheBean]

13 hours ago, Mick Naughty said:

You don’t “need” to water cooler anything if that’s the case. Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t. 

you shout *NOT* cool NAND flash. but its hard to cool only the controller. only *SOME* waterbocks cover only the controller. make sure you buy the right one. 

[Mick Naughty]

1 minute ago, Saksham said:

you shout *NOT* cool NAND flash. but its hard to cool only the controller. only *SOME* waterbocks cover only the controller. make sure you buy the right one. 

Don't think there are many options. Like I said, didn't look into it too much. I cant use mine so I dropped the idea.

[Zero43None]

I think this topic has new meaning now that gen4 PCIe had come out. I am thinking of doing the same thing to my 4 Corsair m.2 4.0's, because, even with that massive heatsink on them, they still get red hot. Plus I think it will just look plain sexy

[bobbygamer]

Someone saying cooling components shortens there life seems fishy but they must mean low temperatures (and lets point out he said likes warm not hot) could reduce rewrites we also know they definitely DO throttle at high temps. Yet to be seen how relevant this is with the pci-e 4.0 stuff which seem to consume more power they certainly have some large heatsinks lol. You can get the sabrent 2tb one without a heatsink for $430 add a waterblock and your still less $ then a 2tb samsung evo plus why not

[MaratM]

Looks like Barrow new about pci-e 4.0 ssd’s before they were released and made a cooling solution

ps there was no space for the m.2 waterblock on my full size build, Thus I decided to use it on htpc

it is asus z390i with z270/370i waterblock

[Budgetclocker]

On 7/9/2019 at 9:48 PM, Zero43None said:

I think this topic has new meaning now that gen4 PCIe had come out. I am thinking of doing the same thing to my 4 Corsair m.2 4.0's, because, even with that massive heatsink on them, they still get red hot. Plus I think it will just look plain sexy

You are right. I guess with the power requirements for PCIe 4.0 and the TDP increasing, they just thought this was a big enough issue to put chunks of metal and thermal pads on the drives.

[SenKa]

On 3/6/2019 at 9:16 PM, fantasia. said:

The amount of people saying that their nvme m.2 drive performed a faster when cooled better is very high.

This is a generalization, but NAND tends likes to be warm and controllers like to be cold.