It seems pretty obvious that new generation SSDs (PCIe 5.0) have certain temperature problemsand it is that as usually happens, the higher the performance, the greater the amount of heat is generated, and if there is a component that is conducive to blowing up the safety mechanism Thermal throttling, that’s the SSD. The manufacturer JIUSHARK has launched a SSD heatsink capable of lowering the temperature of SSDs by 20ºC, making them work below 50ºC, but as expected it has a great disadvantage and that is its size.
Nowadays, almost all PC motherboards already have their own passive cooling system for SSDs, and although in most cases it is sufficient, manufacturers of solid state devices often include their own heatsinks to improve the temperatures of your devices. However, things seem to change with PCI-Express 5.0 SSDs, as manufacturers are beginning to use active cooling solutions (with fan) since the passive ones are insufficient.
This heatsink costs €18 and lowers the temperature of the SSD by almost 50ºC
The manufacturer JIUSHARK appeared on the market for the first time in February with its JF13K cooler, a curious clamshell-type processor cooler that used two 120mm fans in series. Now, it surprises us again with a huge heatsink for SSD in M.2 format that makes use of a large fan, so much so that the size of the set amounts to 71mm high, 74.5mm long and 24.5mm wide… judge its size for yourselves with the following images.
Named M.2-Four, this heatsink will be sold as high-end, and as you can see in the image above, it adheres to the M.2 SSD at the top with four screws and “pulls up”, cooling the block. of aluminum sheets with an RGB fan whose diameter has not been specified, but taking into account that the device is 71 mm high, it can easily be 50-60 mm.
The bad part of having a heatsink of such dimensions for the SSD is that, on the one hand, it will prevent us from using it in the M.2 sockets closest to the socket (which are the ones that are usually linked to the PCIe 5.0 interface on many motherboards). ) because it will possibly hit the processor heatsink (in air coolers), or at least it will prevent us from installing a dedicated graphics card in the first PCIe x16 slot. This means that you will be forced to install it in the lower M.2 sockets of the motherboard, so be careful because not all motherboards have these linked to PCIe 5.0 and many times they are PCIe 4.0, so you would lose the extra performance of the PCIe 5.0 SSD.
The manufacturer itself has provided some performance data using a Samsung 980 Pro SSD (which is PCIe 4.0); with the stock heatsink, it reaches 78ºC and Thermal Throttling jumps, especially since its controller reaches 94ºC. However, with this thermal solution from JIUSHARK, the temperature drops to 40ºC in the NAND memory and the controller stays at 45ºC, which is a reduction of 38 and 49ºC respectively.
Despite the fact that the new generation SSDs will already come with built-in SSDs of quite decent performance and which will theoretically allow the drives to work without Thermal Throttling issues, the price of this JIUSHARK M.2 Four is quite attractive because it will cost 18 dollars its normal variant and 26 dollars the variant with ARGB in the fan.
