Best Value market M2 Heatsink

[Ar558a]

I have notice alot of reviews have highlighted that M2 drive's can get quite toasty and my board/M2 didn't come with a heatsink. Does anyone have any good suggestions in the Sub $15 category?

[Chris Pratt]

Unless you've got one of the super fast PCIe 4.0 drives or you're doing a ton of writes, I wouldn't bother. The NAND actually *needs* to be toasty; it's the controller that needs to be kept from overheating. That's why the label on the drive does double duty as a heat spreader, transferring heat from the controller to the NAND. In normal usage, that's more than sufficient.

[alyen]

I've seen someone that just used a double sided thermal tape stick to stick small heat sink to the controller only and not on the NAND. I don't know if it made any difference in speed when bench marking.