ASRock Intros Blazing M.2 Gen 5 Fan-Heatsink

[btarunr]

ASRock today introduced the Blazing M.2 Gen 5 Fan-Heatsink, an active cooling solution for M.2 Gen 5 SSDs, and meant to be paired with the company's Socket AM5 and LGA1700 motherboards that have Gen 5 M.2 slots. The cooler is a 5 cm-tall hunk of extruded aluminium with a 30 mm fan ventilating it at roughly 5 CFM. There are five types of these coolers, each suitable for a particular type of ASRock motherboards. These coolers have been out since December 2022 as inclusions in motherboards, however, ASRock released the types 3, 4, and 5 (from the table below) today. The cooler is said to significantly lower temperatures of SSD controllers, minimizing performance losses to thermal throttling. These coolers are expected to be priced around $30 a pop.



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[Shou Miko]

It's a fine concept for now, not a lot of Gen5 SSD's out and so far from what I seen in tests I will stick to my Gen3 and Gen4 drives thank you

 

[KrazyT]

With the huge air cooler and the huge GC, how these heatsink fit in a case ?

 

[Chaitanya]

I would much rather get one of those oversized Thermalright heatsinks rather than these noisy solutions.

 

[RamiHaidafy]

It's a fine concept for now, not a lot of Gen5 SSD's out and so far from what I seen in tests I will stick to my Gen3 and Gen4 drives thank you

I was initially planning on getting a Gen 5 drive, but given their cooling requirements I went with the Samsung 980 Pro.

I'll wait for the second-gen nvme controllers before jumping in. Hopefully a process shrink will eliminate the need for active cooling.

 

[Shou Miko]

I was initially planning on getting a Gen 5 drive, but given their cooling requirements I went with the Samsung 980 Pro.

I'll wait for the second-gen nvme controllers before jumping in. Hopefully a process shrink will eliminate the need for active cooling.

Personally I would rather get a 4TB or higher NVME at Gen3 for the space a 1TB ultra fast gen5 because looking at the current models they still bunk at random 4k read/write as low as a gen3 drive.

I only own my Sabrent because a family member sold it for cheap and it was almost new it's a perfect drive for me sadly I cannot get Sabrent for a good price around europe why I went with a Gigabyte M30 1TB with 2GB of DDR3L cache and I am planing on 2 more later.

 

[Bwaze]

Personally I would rather get a 4TB or higher NVME at Gen3 for the space a 1TB ultra fast gen5 because looking at the current models they still bunk at random 4k read/write as low as a gen3 drive.

I only own my Sabrent because a family member sold it for cheap and it was almost new it's a perfect drive for me sadly I cannot get Sabrent for a good price around europe why I went with a Gigabyte M30 1TB with 2GB of DDR3L cache and I am planing on 2 more later.

While 1 and 2 TB SSD drives have seen price drops in recent weeks due to slow sales this mostly ignored the 4 TB and larger drives, which are still seen as something most users don't need (gotta have that need for HDD drives still)...

So the price per TB is now quite poor for most large drives, except for some exceptions which have lowered their prices before (Crucial P3), or for old SATA drives like Samsung 870 QVO that's actually an 80MB/s, once you fill out the "cache".

 

[usiname]

Wouldn't a peltier with large passive heatsink be a better solution for SSDs with few watts power consumption? Peltier is terrible for more power hungry devices, but we could be fine until gen 6 arrive.

 

[AnarchoPrimitiv]

Personally I would rather get a 4TB or higher NVME at Gen3 for the space a 1TB ultra fast gen5 because looking at the current models they still bunk at random 4k read/write as low as a gen3 drive.

I only own my Sabrent because a family member sold it for cheap and it was almost new it's a perfect drive for me sadly I cannot get Sabrent for a good price around europe why I went with a Gigabyte M30 1TB with 2GB of DDR3L cache and I am planing on 2 more later.

Yeah, the lack of performance increase in low queue depth random reads and writes is disappointing, but I expected it based on the same thing occurring with PCIe 4.0 drives. I've personally decided to get my hands on a couple optane drives, 280GB ones to act as an OS drive in my current system and future ones as the random performance is unrivaled.

 

[ir_cow]