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Akasa's Gecko Turbo Cooler for SSDs Features a Blower Fan

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There has been no shortage of various SSD coolers to date, but none seems to have implemented a blower fan as yet. Well, Akasa decided that it was a product that was needed in the market and was showing off its Gecko Turbo Cooler at Computex. The heatsink part of the cooler is dwarfed by the blower fan that sits on top of it, making for a rather amusing looking device. As to the noise level, we can only guess, as it wasn't plugged in, but blower fans don't tend to be the quietest fans around. That said, it's likely to bring the best airflow of any M.2 SSD cooler to date, even though it might be a tad excessive, even for PCIe 5.0 SSDs.



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Hahaha ohhhh goodie, a seashell cooler that fits right into my dark Ocean themed rig. Ty Akasa. I needed a good laugh this morning!

This plague of tiny fan driven ssd coolers is getting out of hand but at least there are some that are humorous.
 
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This is utterly pointless. PCIe 5 drives have hot controllers, this is nothing new. They dont make that much heat! A basic heatsink is plenty to keep controller temps down.

NAND, OTOH, prefers being warm when writing.
 
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There has been no shortage of various SSD coolers to date, but none seems to have implemented a blower fan as yet. Well, Akasa decided that it was a product that was needed in the market and was showing off its Gecko Turbo Cooler at Computex.

The Jonsbo M2 Cooler was introduced late 2021 and released sometime in the middle to late 2022, and is an M2 cooler with a large blower. It's still relatively new enough that it's only readily available on Aliexpress.

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And if you consider the smaller M2 Coolers with a dinky blower fan, further makes the statement erroneous.
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The Jonsbo M2 Cooler was introduced late 2021 and released sometime in the middle to late 2022, and is an M2 cooler with a large blower. It's still relatively new enough that it's only readily available on Aliexpress.

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And if you consider the smaller M2 Coolers with a dinky blower fan, further makes the statement erroneous.
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Those tiny ones aren't blowers, but I honestly hadn't seen the other one. Akasa is at least a fairly well known brand in some parts of the world.
 
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I've said this once and I'll say it again, I call BS on all this cooling requirement. This is just one more way for companies to overcharge us with a the same price of 30$-80$ on a cooling device that weighs 100g vs. 1kg for the CPUs.
 
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Those tiny ones aren't blowers, but I honestly hadn't seen the other one. Akasa is at least a fairly well known brand in some parts of the world.
Fair, in regards to branding; Akasa is a lot better known, and Jonsbo is still mostly a Chinese-specific brand.

As for the slim cooler, I'm pretty sure the tiny one on that model and most newer slim NVME coolers is a centrifugal blower type, which is different from the older NVME coolers that had a more traditional but tiny axial fan like the ADATA XPG Storm. I have a similar model to the former, and took it apart when the fan died. It doesn't have a straight path from the intake to the exhaust, instead only throwing out the air from one side. The fan blades were also different, straight instead of swept as you can barely make out in the ADATA cooler.
adata-xpg-storm-rgb-cooler-for-m2-2280-ssds-aluminium-heatsink-rgb-with-aura-sync-compatibility.jpg


Regardless, the slim NVME coolers with such a tiny fan don't last very long, and their higher pitch can be annoying to some. It's mainly why I was keeping up with NVME cooler news, since I have a troublesome NVME that gets toastier than average, to the point that the regular aluminum block on the mobo can't cool it, even with a fan directly over it. Thus far, I'm working with a slightly larger cooler with a 25mm fan but doesn't completely ruin the aesthetic of the setup I have (more because there are no solid panel options for the case I have and I don't want to spend time vinyl wrapping it with automotive vinyl), and it hasn't died on me yet.
 
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How much worse can this PCI-e 5.0 heat/cooler issue get? Jeez... :fear:
 

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Fair, in regards to branding; Akasa is a lot better known, and Jonsbo is still mostly a Chinese-specific brand.

As for the slim cooler, I'm pretty sure the tiny one on that model and most newer slim NVME coolers is a centrifugal blower type, which is different from the older NVME coolers that had a more traditional but tiny axial fan like the ADATA XPG Storm. I have a similar model to the former, and took it apart when the fan died. It doesn't have a straight path from the intake to the exhaust, instead only throwing out the air from one side. The fan blades were also different, straight instead of swept as you can barely make out in the ADATA cooler.


Regardless, the slim NVME coolers with such a tiny fan don't last very long, and their higher pitch can be annoying to some. It's mainly why I was keeping up with NVME cooler news, since I have a troublesome NVME that gets toastier than average, to the point that the regular aluminum block on the mobo can't cool it, even with a fan directly over it. Thus far, I'm working with a slightly larger cooler with a 25mm fan but doesn't completely ruin the aesthetic of the setup I have (more because there are no solid panel options for the case I have and I don't want to spend time vinyl wrapping it with automotive vinyl), and it hasn't died on me yet.
I guess the one on the pic you used is different to the one on some of the early PCIe 5.0 SSDs, as this is not a blower fan for sure. It's late after a long day at the show and I was on my phone, so I didn't look all that carefully.
 
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Akasa, probably: Let's take a laptop fan and slap it on an SSD heatsink!

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Finally, this will go great with my inter cooler /s
 
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I have one of the smaller blowers and yes, its a blower because it will jet the air out the back towards the case. Those tiny fans runs at super high RPMS, tho.

I recently replaced it with a cooper one and it was better, and now my current one is a taller, passive all copper heat sink along the whole length of the SSD and my Arctic Frozer II AIO pump, which has a fan, blows right on it. The temps don't go above 38c playing battlefield 2042 or Star Ship Troopers coop, my cpu is i7 13700k.
 
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