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Review on Raspberry Armor Metal Aluminium Heatsink by Lawrence George

Revainrating 5 out of 5

37 degrees! AT HIGH LOAD!

So 1. As a protective case, it's really amazing. Note, however, that the SD card cannot be accessed once you put the case on. However, it comes with two sets of thermal tapes which actually work great as I had no trouble installing the first set. The only thing I would call a "complaint" in this case is the inability to adjust it for anything. You will need longer screws for the bottom if you also want to mount it on a larger case or bracket to place it somewhere else depending on your use case. Apart from that, the case in the Pi cluster is put under stress. with 4 Pi Zero Ws and a full Apache web server LAMN stack (Linux Apache, MongoDB and Node.JS) connected to 5TB of data allowing you to use almost anything you need for indexing, sorting etc. require. MongoDB DB with 5 TB of documents reached the maximum temperature of 37 degrees C. The normal operating temperature in offline mode with no load is almost 24 degrees. cThe average temperature in normal use is 28 degrees when used as a normal desktop. Considering the room temperature was 20.1 degrees C (70 degrees F) during these tests, heat dissipation was phenomenal and this case felt cold to me.

Pros
  • Feels good
Cons
  • Not the best