Because the issue of heating Latest generation SSD could keep you up at night?
An NVMe PCIe Gen 4 SSD gets hot. That’s a fact. Logically, an NVMe PCIe Gen 5 SSD will heat up a little more. More and more manufacturers are therefore imagining “solutions” to remedy this, and to see the products they offer, it will be terrible… or not.
A 60 mm fan and 3000 rpm
In the past, we have already relayed the announcements of certain manufacturers who went there here for an “enormous” heatsink, there for a fan with a “studied” shape. Today, JiuShark presents the M.2-Three and publishes several graphs to explain the situation.
First, we notice the imposing side of the product. The M.2-Three is a 74.5 x 24.5 x 10mm heatsink, but it’s of course the presence of a fan that makes it look impressive. It then measures 60 x 35.5 x 82.5 mm, for a total weight of 113 grams.
JiuShark evokes a 27 aluminum fins and specifies that it has integrated a heat pipe into the structure of its heatsink. The fan is a classic 60 x 60 mm, but it can go up to 3,000 rpm to remove heat from the SSD. The company takes the example of a Samsung 980 Pro.
Is it really necessary?
For its demonstration, JiuShark displays, at the top, the temperatures of the NAND memory and, at the bottom, those of the controller. Each time, it shows results with fan (light green), without (dark green), and “bare” SSD (orange).
So, inevitably, the results are eloquent, and the Samsung SSD is obviously much cooler with the ventilation engaged. In the same way, and we have known this for a long time, you should not leave a PCIe 4.0 SSD “bare”.
JiuShark’s graph above all confirms that the presence of a simple heatsink, like those fitted to most motherboards, is sufficient to prevent overheating. Of course, with a ventilator, the results are more impressive, but is it worth the effort?
The question of space in the case will also arise, as M.2 ports are often interposed between processor and graphics card. We still welcome the low price of the JiuShark solution, billed at 8.80 dollars in the basic version and 13.30 in black.
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Source : WCCFTech
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