Question Getting a 4tb gen4 m2 drive, should i get a heat sink for it?

[merk]

I have an asus PRIME Z690-P mobo. I'm swapping out one of the smaller slower m2 drives for a faster/bigger drive, acer Predator GM7000. I usually never bother with heat sinks for the m2 drives. But the other drives are all gen3 and half the speed of the new one. Would it be worth getting a heat sink for it? If so, any particular suggestion? Or should i wait until I've used it for a while and just monitor the heat first?

thanks

 

[gdansk]

Put the fast PCIe4 drive under the heatsink that is already on the motherboard.
Put any remaining drives in the slots w/o heatsink.
Should be good unless you got a really hot PCIe 3 drive of which there weren't that many.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Acer Predator GM7000 SSD Review: A Familiar Drive

Applies a good formula, but does not overdeliver

www.tomshardware.com

The GM7000 idled at 47 degrees C and hit a maximum temperature of 85 C, where it throttled, during a transfer of 1TB of video files. The speed degraded at first to 1.35 GBps and then 800 MBps with heavy throttling. The graphene cooler is not sufficient for super heavy workloads, so you may want to consider additional cooling.

Highly rated: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KDDKDNN/

 

[merk]

Put the fast drive PCIe4 drive under the heatsink that is already on the motherboard.
Put any remaining drives in the slots w/o heatsink.
Should be good unless you got a really hot PCIe 3 drive of which there weren't that many.

Ah thanks - i didn't even notice the mobo came with a m2 heatsink. Bought the system pre-built (only way to get a rtx card at the time).

Acer Predator GM7000 SSD Review: A Familiar Drive

Applies a good formula, but does not overdeliver

www.tomshardware.com

Highly rated: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KDDKDNN/

Thanks. I'll try out the heatsink included with the mobo as pointed out by gdansk since i didn't realize one came with the mobo. If i run into any issues I'll try the one you linked.

 

[aigomorla]

Always put a heatsink under a nVME.

If under more then 10-15seconds of load, i noticed the controllers on 75% of them will throttle.
And one of the last thing you want is a throttling nVME controller.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I've never had an NVME that I didn't "sink". Early on, you could buy them with the PCIE x4 expansion card. But you can get sinks for any unit you can fit directly to the motherboard. You can get a kit with sinks for two NVME drives for about $11.

I use SK Hynix 3rd-gen P31 drives, and they were rated at being so power-efficient that they didn't warm up too much. I put sinks on them anyway.

The average mainstreamer would balk at buying sinks and installing them. You need a small Phillips screwdriver (which comes with the heatsink kits), and a little patience and care for the tedium and tiny screws. But that's about the extent of it.

Kit from Amazon

 

[merk]

Always put a heatsink under a nVME.

If under more then 10-15seconds of load, i noticed the controllers on 75% of them will throttle.
And one of the last thing you want is a throttling nVME controller.

Is there any easy way to tell when that happens other then copying files back and forth?

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Is there any easy way to tell when that happens other then copying files back and forth?

Troublesome if you want to prove it to yourself firsthand. You can find lab-test and customer reviews which describe the throttling.

As I said already, when I order new NVMEs, I add the $11 heatsink kit to my order.

 

[aigomorla]

Is there any easy way to tell when that happens other then copying files back and forth?

Not that i can think of because thottling mostly happens when the nVME is doing work.
And it will tank hard when coping files over.

I guess you can use hwmonitor to see what temp the nVME is, but you probably wont notice it throttling unless your doing some form of file transfer.

Just use the heatsink that came with the board, or buy a cheap heatsink.
Unless its a Gen5 nvme you will not need a super heatsink.

 

[merk]

yeah i'm using the heatsink that came with the mobo. I was just curious if there was some way to definitely tell if you are overheating. Guess i'll just try hwmonitor when i'm moving some files around and see what happens. Thanks