This seems like a very useful innovation.
That’s a big improvement
Since the flash chips like being warm, my conclusion was to put a small alluminium sink only on the controller and it works fine.
Might not be enough for PCIe5 but don’t cool the f*king flash chips. You’re making the disk slower that way.On one hand, my mobo (and a lot of others) include a full-length heatsink. On the other hand, the slot is right under my (300 something W) GPU, so I think I’ll be fine. It’s really funny tho, if their packaging makes my drive unintentionally faster
I wish they would just start putting EDSFF slots on desktop motherboards. They aren’t that much bigger than m.2, but they are designed to have heatsinks large enough to keep the SSD cool under heavy load.
My motherboard came with a tiny angled vertical fan that blows directly on the ram. The m2 slots are farther back but I just put a case fan on top of the graphics card and that blows straight on them.
M.2 installed base is simply too large by this point. I am also assuming margins on motherboards with EDSFF are significantly higher and OEMs want to avoid cannibalisation.
