ADATA XPG STORM RGB M.2 2280 add-on Gets An Actively Cooled Heatsink

I am noticing that ssd cooling is becoming more and more of a consideration.

 

Guessing those high speed GB/s M.2 chips can get a bit hot, space tends to be a bit cramped depending on motherboard model though so it's interesting to see something that isn't a thin piece of copper though a heatsink probably helps a bit too on it's own.
Not too sure about how hot the newer models can get either or if they throttle down or have some other means to prevent problems.

Probably depends a lot on the architecture of the SSD and how much voltage it requires plus the size of the chip and all that. A lot of reading up to do whenever I do the next full system upgrade as it seems M.2's have the advantage for now until a newer SATA connection becomes available. Well whenever that might happen, PCIE-4, USB 3.2 and DDR5 are all planned - though it'll take time for actual hardware using these specs to become available of course. - but I haven't heard much recently about SATA4 but I might just have missed it too.

EDIT: Guessing this design isn't blower but rather sucker(?) sending hot air out from the casing/heatsink and well into the rest of the case and straight into the GPU? Not really sure if that's ideal design but I guess testing will see how this works.

 

Give me a waterblock to put on such a SSD and get it over with.

 

Seems to exist as well, less bulky than I would have believed too after doing a quick "M.2 waterblock" Google search, neat.
(And maybe a little bit overkill but eh if you're looping all the other major hardware into water cooling might as well get that one too. )