M.2 heatsinks?

[AtomicGaming]

In terms of cooling, are heatsinks for m.2s practical?

[Shimejii]

No they really dont do anything worth noting. The Controller is the only thing needing any sort of cooling.

[AtomicGaming]

Just now, Shimejii said:

No they really dont do anything worth noting. The Controller is the only thing needing any sort of cooling.

What would be a great way to cool it down?

[flashiling]

1 minute ago, AtomicGaming said:

In terms of cooling, are heatsinks for m.2s practical?

yes, but not a must have.

An m.2 probably doesn't need a heatsink to work unless you have very poor airflow in your case, and even then a heatsink won't help much since it cools the m.2 from the airflow.

So only if you know you will be transferring very big files very often so it would be under heavy load constantly.

if it's just for normal gaming/OS drive then it's not needed at all.

Unless you like the looks

[Shimejii]

1 minute ago, AtomicGaming said:

What would be a great way to cool it down?

Generally just having a case with decent airflow does the trick.

[DoctorNick]

3 minutes ago, Shimejii said:

No they really dont do anything worth noting. The Controller is the only thing needing any sort of cooling.

Don't say that in generel. Really much depends on the controller and the placement of the SSD. On PCI-E 4.0 drives you need a heatsink. (Most of them comes with a heatsink though).

You can always get standard memory heatsinks like these and put them on:

[AtomicGaming]

2 minutes ago, DoctorNick said:

Don't say that in generel. Really much depends on the controller and the placement of the SSD. On PCI-E 4.0 drives you need a heatsink. (Most of them comes with a heatsink though).

You can always get standard memory heatsinks like these and put them on:

Oh. I actually didn't think of that. 

 

How much are they about average?

[Shimejii]

3 minutes ago, DoctorNick said:

Don't say that in generel. Really much depends on the controller and the placement of the SSD. On PCI-E 4.0 drives you need a heatsink. (Most of them comes with a heatsink though).

You can always get standard memory heatsinks like these and put them on:

Agains. Its in general M.2 SSD's dont need a headsink. Its literally just the controller that needs any sort of cooling. Gen4 SSD's also have superhot Controllers, the heatsinks they come with help, but they are rushed, ill give it a bit before ever considering that.

[DoctorNick]

1 minute ago, Shimejii said:

Agains. Its in general M.2 SSD's dont need a headsink. Its literally just the controller that needs any sort of cooling. Gen4 SSD's also have superhot Controllers, the heatsinks they come with help, but they are rushed, ill give it a bit before ever considering that.

I agree. Sorry for misreading that

[RejZoR]

NVMe controllers can get pretty hot during intensive operations. NAND chips don't need heatsinks tho.