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Review on Thermalright Heatsink Aluminum Silicone Thermal by Curtis Donjuan

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Suitable for most NVME drives.

Now I say the majority but in fact there are some that get very hot and therefore come with their own radiators. In this case you get such a heatsink for fast drives that don't run at 7000 MB/s. In fact, you probably could, and I'll explain why shortly. First, I'm using this on NVMe, which runs at an average speed of 2400MB/s and doesn't need much cooling, or even one as reliable as this. What makes this good is how they use the heat pipe. Because of NVMe's long and narrow nature, you can use a heat pipe as a vapor chamber. A large mass of the radiator absorbs additional heat and smoothes the transitions. Normally NVMe runs in small bursts, so you just need to quickly get rid of that big spike of heat and let the rest soften. For that reason it can handle everyday drivers using those hotter drives when needed, but I would suggest something bigger with more surface area to cool those drives if you have a bigger challenge than loading a level in a video game or yours to start computer. Boot operating system faster. You don't really need to use these drives in extremely low temperatures, bordering on room temperature, but I get that for my drive. I had to stress test to get to 112f with the Crystal label. I didn't see any performance improvement using this heatsink, but I wasn't expecting it, I just wanted to even out the pace during peaks. By the way, it looks very cool and fits under my graphics card.

Pros
  • Easy to read control panel
Cons
  • New competitors have appeared