We’ll likely learn more about how efficient these drives are early next year at CES 2024 or not long after. So if you’re not keen on a PCIe 5.0 drive due to fans and bulky coolers, you might not have long to wait for better options. Just don’t expect them to be cheap when all signs are pointing to SSD price increases next year.
it’s just stupid… i don’t need lights and fans on the SSD… i need it reliable and cheap and staying cool under workload.
At these speeds it’s like asking a CPU to run cool under workload. Your options are:
Active cooling
Slower speeds
Transistor breakthrough
I don’t even like RGB case fans… no idea why they thought this was necessary.
The fans on the M.2… that’s a bit of question mark for me. They do get rather warm and many high end ones come with heat sinks. Some older SSDs has huge issues with overheating and stalling, so it’s an open question yet if fans on drives is actually required or if the case design and airflow through the case just needs to be addressed before we start slapping fans on m.2 drives.
What’s next, they’ll be able to dance and play fiddle?
How long until these M.2 SSDs get their own SATA power connector?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
While there’s definitely an argument to be made about RGB overload, there’s no doubt that colored lights can make a component stand out, whether on the shelf or in your system.
So it’s no surprise that PNY is trying to appeal to the masses by giving you some aesthetic options with its latest XLR8 CS3150 PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD.
So far, all PCIe 5.0 SSDs with Phison chips are either provided with passive cooling such as the Aorus Gen 5 and the Crucial T700, or with a heatsink pre-installed and a tiny fan like Micro-Center’s in-house brand Inland TD510.
Naturally, it depends on how the cooling is designed to complement the chips and their layout, as well as how much air is already circulating in your case and around your M.2 slot.
But one of the appealing aspects of an M.2 drive has been its thin form factor, which can hidden away under motherboard shrouds, like a six-M.2-slot ASRock Z790 Nova WiFi.
In the meantime, Corsair sells a liquid cooling block for this 2280 form factor NVMe drive, which reminds me of the days of squeezing performance from Intel’s Prescott Pentium 4 processors, which were inefficient for their time.
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The rgb is just to be able to sell this without having to solve the heating problem. Vote with your wallet lads.
