ineo M.2 2280 PCIe 5 SSD Rocket Heatsink Built-in Cooling Fan [M3]

Completely eleminates thermal throttling and drops max temps to 40-45°C during max speed writes of the entire drive at 3GBps and I got the same results when encrypting the drives. They're 2TB Sabrent TLC drives and they ran at the previously stated temperature max during the encryption and other long lasting high speed transfers with the base temperature inside the case being in between 32 and 33°C. For anyone who is interested, Ineo's other model works almost as well. If you don't encrypt drives or do lots of large file transfers or 5-10°C on a Sabrent TLC 2TB doesn't bother you, their other model does also work quite well and you can close the performance gap by applying some Noctua thermal paste to the chamber where the heat pipe rotates when the halves are unscrewed, completely at your own risk, of course. The actual heatsink on that on is slightly bigger, but it has the advantage of being movable into a position where it doesn't interfere. This one performs a bit better due to the solid aluminum that has fan driven air flow over the fins on it and because it's two heat pipes being spread out, draws in more heat faster than the one larger heat pipe of the othet Ineo model m.2 drive heatsink. Neither of them take up as much space as they look like they do in the pictures, but they are large enough to effectively dissipate the heat they deal with. I would recommend getting better thermal pads as the ones they ship with are fine, but if you're going this far with your cooling, you are definitely going to want to get higher performance thermal pads. Make sure you know whether you have a one or a two sided drive, both will fit in both models, but you will need to know what kinds and amounts of thermal pads you will need if you are getting better ones. Also note that the bottom may require part of a thermal pad to level it if it is two sided of has a different chip on the bottom, which shouldn't happen but I've still seen it (my guess is that manufacturers and designers have to get creative to work around shortages). None of this is a problem for people who are going to use the included thermal pads as they provide plenty and the... bottom tray is actually adjustable, so make sure you are applying pressure when tightening the screws. Also, especially if you adjust the angle of the other model, make sure that you remember that heatsinks are more exposed bare metal inside your computer, so disconnect the power, discharge the capacitors however your motherboard and power supply manufacturers tell you to, usually by physically unplugging the power cord and then switching the switch on the power supply to on and hitting the start up button, waiting 5-10 seconds and then start up button, and repeat until several times after you see nothing try to activate. I also had to have the contact side of the drive sticking out a couple of millimeters so that the assembly would screw in properly. I am genuinely confused by this as it seems to indicate that the drive somehow became shorter. If Ineo could solve that little physics mystery, I'd think they'd not only get a Nobel Prize, but we would all be able to buy physically and , thus, storage sized devices that were much larger but fit into smaller areas and having a 2.5in SSD or even a full 3.5in HDD sized nvme drive arrive in the mail and then being able to put it into an m.2 slot would help with alot of problems with ssd's in general, but it would also just be really fun

I had three things I was skeptical about with this product:1) Build quality2) Proper fitment inside of PC*3) Major cooling improvement (for Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1 TB)It was fine on all counts, and exceeded promises on cooling performance.Build quality: the heat pipes are visible and appear to be actual heat pipes, not fake. I saw no defects in the machining or fitment of the components of the final assembled product.*Proper fitment in PC: Note that I was installing this for my M.2_2 slot, which is below PCIe slot 4. It would not have fit under my sound card had I not moved it up to PCIe slot 2. If I wanted to use this cooler on my M.2_1 slot (where my system boot SSD is installed), it would not fit underneath my GPU in PCIe slot 1.Cooling Performance: My PC case is a Fractal Design Define R6, which is well ventilated and uses 3x 140mm Noctua NF-A14 fans for intake on an aggressive fan curve. Previously my Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1 TB would be at 49C idle/70C at load. After installing this cooler it's now at 30C idle/45C load with the fan rpm at around 20-40% (motherboard would only moderate the fans off of either CPU or motherboard temp; I chose CPU). On a more aggressive fan curve (about 65% rpm) it was 27C idle/36C load.Noise: Fan noise is negligible compared to the 140mm and 120mm case fans installed, though my NAS (with all 8x HDD's spooling and 2x 120mm fans) is still louder than my PC.

Most proper PC builds would do just fine with any old heatsink, the SSD would be fine. However, I'm currently rocking a pre-built system from Dell, having a motherboard that features asinine placements for the SSD and RAM, in a case that has a whopping ONE fan slot for airflow. Looking for just about anything to increase it's circulation, this looked right up the alley for decreasing the temps.With a normal heatsink, it was still in the danger zone of temperatures, but as soon as I slapped this thing in, it went down by 20 degrees, and now at peaks it's still below the danger threshold on CrystalDiskInfo. Looks cool, Fan noise is silent/low enough to ignore, and performs like a champ, would definitely recommend!

This cooler is really doing it's job perfectly. I used it for my Samsung 970 Pro 1TB M2 SSD. It was getting very hot especially while making plots it was reaching over 60 Celsius degrees. And minimum (when M2 is idle) was over 40 Celsius degrees. I tried the other M2 cooler things and they didn't satisfied me so much. They dropped only 3-5 Celsius degrees.After installing this cooler the maximum temperature (M2 was really under huge load - plotting operation) dropped to 47 Celsius degrees from 61 degrees and minimum temperature (M2 is idle) to 36 Celsius degrees. Also room temperature was 35 Celsius degrees in this time. I believe the temperatures will drop more when these hot summer days over. I attached the Hard Disk Sentinel temperature history screenshots (daily average, maximum and minimum values) you can see the values there.Don't forget the apply the blue thermal pads both side of your M2. They are at the bottom of the box. Installing is very simple. It is very small doesn't take up space over the mainboard and doesn't disturb anything in the case. About the fan noise i really can't hear any fan noise :)I strongly recommend this cooler for your M2. Don't forget temperature is enemy of the computer components it reduces the performance and the lifetime of them. If you want performance and long lifetime for your M2 you should definitely get this item.