First Consumer PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD Tested, Makes A Lot Of Fan Noise

I guess it wasn't possible to go 3-Pin because that little monster fan draws too much amps.

 

So industry is heading back to noisy storage with moving parts? What a fail.

 

21,000 rpm! That's witless. 2/3 of my Dremel's max rpm. More than 2/3 of my router's top rpm. Almost twice my angle grinder's rpm. It's strange I need to look at power tools to imagine rpms comparable to a PC component. An old HDD's 7200 rpm is insignificant in comparison, after all.

 

21,000 rpm fan from Sauron?!!

 

Im a silence freak and this is unacceptable.

 

Why do I need 5.0 NVMe?

 

If you work with large files - every bit helps, but for home use? You don't. Not yet, anyway.

 

Faster is better, but noisier isn't.
For the average consumer I recommend a good passively cooled PCIe 4.0 NVMe drive.
The only advantage of these high speed drives is if you work with 8k video files or something of the sort.

 

I`m still shacking my head at the fact that someone released a PC part that needs a 21.000 RPM fan!...

 

Well, it only made sense after they released a phone with a 20000 rpm fan.

 

I nominate this cooler as the worst cooler of 2023.
Make the fan 2-3mm bigger to fill out the heatsink atleast, that would double the fan blade size and the RPM can then be halved.
The heatsink itself looks like a passive design, with a fan mounted on it.
A proper designed thin finned heatsink would be twice as good, so the fan RPM could be halved again.

 

Should not have stopped developing SATA

 

stupid isn't it, there is a reason i've gone totally SSD's for the past 5 years, can get almost silent machines idle and even heavy workload you are talking about barely audible fans

to go back to that seems so silly, then again looking at many applications and games pcie3 ssds appear to be enough, with 4 barely scraping ahead (most likely tech to access it fully is not there) my guess is pcie5 is years away

 

There is literally space for 3 of those fans, and could be way quieter but this is way step backwards.

 

Or if you are using the SSD for a server for business use

 

It makes your penis really big.

To be fair, the smaller the cooler, the smaller the fan, so the higher the RPM you need. Since this in an nvme, you can't use bigger but slower fans.

 

I just don't see a 5.0 NVMe in my future due to lack of need for the speed for one thing. But there is no way that little itty bitty fans are going in my pc build. Small fans, if need be...but itty bitty teeny tiny? Nooooooooooo...............