M.2 2280 SSD Premium Heatsink - Red

Modern electronics can run very hot. Nothing new there. But should you do that?After more than 50 years in and around electronics, and about 80% of that times around computers, my answer to this question is "NO".Running electronics hot wears out components. The expensive components may not fail first, but just about ANY failure in a system with billions of components will probably bring your system down.Wen it comes to data storage devices, you must be doubly careful. If you care about the data you store, you would not want a storage device to fail. If you are very careful and twice as much 'lucky' then a data storage failure will be very annoying. If you are only average-lucky, data loss will be irrecoverable. If you can increase the storage device's reliability, do so.The best, most cost effective way to increase your storage devices' longevity is to cool them down.This may be particularly true with STD technology. The most delicate, least known technology is NAND. Among NAND devices, the densest, most miniaturized are the M.2 NVMe These devices are indeed trailblazers in the data storage wild-west. The device I am evaluating here is simple, effective, unobtrusive, and easily installed. There devices get mounted to the NVMe using the supplied hardware, and the assembled unit is then installed in the computing device. To be effective, the cooling device (heat-sink) must have large air surface (through which to transmit the heat it collected to the air flowing around it - This heatsink has large, tall fins, which are excellent.. It also needs to be made of material best for soaking up heat quickly (Aluminium is best, better than copper!) - Our device here is made of extruded Aluminium. Finally, the device must be attached very intimately to the NVMe. Towards this end, the bottom of the device is ground very flat.To maintain good contact (so there are no air "pockets", not even microscopic ones), a bonding material is almost always needed. These devices are supplied with two strips of "silicone gel". You apply the gel just like a 'sticker' to the clean bottom of the heat sink. once you figure out how the device 'goes together', you remove the second release film, and carefully position the heat-sink on the M.2 device. While maintaining pressure, you fasten the 6 itsy-bitsy tiny screws. I said "fasten", I did not say "tighten". This is not a Diesel engine cylinder head. The screws are supposed to hold this delicate, tiny sandwich together, that is it.Wait! you say. What about the second silicon strip? Is it not supposed to be bonding the black 'bottom tray' to the underside of the M.2? If it does, I could not find a way to do so without leaving a "wide" gap. Besides, if you put the heat-sink directly on the M.2 components, the bottom is really best left alone.Something else; these light blue silicon gel strips are very popular with manufacturers; they are clean, cheap, re-positionable, clean, cheap. Get the point? There are much better solution Most of them in the paste consistency.But you have to be CAREFUL . The better solutions are conductive, abrasive, or both. you do not want to have excess material oozing, dripping or flowing off the mounting surface onto the circuit. Damage will ensue.If you choose to use a heat-sink adhesive (the best pastes are epoxies, or acrylic glues), make sure you test the device first. Manufacturers tend to not honor warranties on cemented devices.Overall, this is a very good quality product, and a complete kit (screwdriver included).Oh, I cheated in my ratings. This device is not good for "warmth", only chilling... Marketing...

The paper box of the Digifast heatsink looks like a medicine box, however it's friendly to the environment.The box contains:. Red aluminum heatsink. Black back cover. 8 screws and 1 screw driver (2 extra screws). 2 x 0.75mm thermal pads.The heatsink and cover are well crafted and precised dimensioned with excellent finish. Unlike most other heatsinks which require 2 thermal pads, this Digifast uses ONLY 1 pad spacing between the heatsink and the chips-side of M.2 SSD.The flat side of SSD sits on 6 grooves inside the cover, thus there is a 1.5mm gap allowing air flow between this side and the bottom of the cover. Moreover, the M.2-screw end of the cover serves as a stop for SSD.The most unique feature is at the back cover. All components fit together exactly and beautifully which makes this Digifast heatsink an aircraft part alike!Suggestion: Provide specifications about the thermal pads such as thickness and thermal conductivityIt's worth my money.

ryzen mb under video card m/2 seems to stay cooler

This heatsink was very easy to install. I have it on my my WD blue NVME ssd. Works great and matches my setup. Looks really cool!

It does keep my 2TB WD Black NVMe SN750 at or under 50c while under load and 28-32c idle. Small problem I ran into that the thermal pads was a bit too thick but that was quickly remedied just by smooshing the pads a little. Any drive with thicker 3Dnand chips might have a problem unless you use non conductive thermal paste.

I’ll start with the pros and consPros:*keeps ssd temps lower, a bit over 10c lower under load than the previous heatsink*looks pretty good*red matches my gskill ram better than I thought based on the product imagesCons:Does not fit my motherboard (Asus b360 rog itx) and I bet many motherboards that have a combined chipset and ssd heatsinkThe color in the photos is a lot darker than it actually is, it’s closer to fire engine redThe bottom plate is very tall which was hitting the chipset heatsink. It is unnecessarily tall, even with chips on the back of the ssd and the supplied thermal pad there will be a gap between the ssd and the bottom plate. Luckily the bottom plate from the old heatsink I have fit with a little modification.I hope they make a new version with a smaller bottom plate gap like other heatsinks

I purchased this because my 970 Evo Plus was getting very hot. It was consistently around 70 Celsius with my previous NVME aluminum slotted cooler. I installed this and now my temp is checking in at 50-52 Celsius. Much better at keeping my drive cool so I can run it at full speed. The added heat sink size helps!

NVME 5°C lower temp than with previous heat sync.Large heat sync fins dissipates heat from high speed NVME Drives efficiently.

The red colour is great and it went on smoothly. No fitment issues and will keep cool with all the air going through the case, probably a good investment on a three hundred dollar plus NVMe drive. Now I just wish my CPU cooler came in red! (The Phantech one was out of stock)

This heatsink supports single and double sided drives and on average reduced my temps 7-10 degrees which is great for the price! Now my drive doesn't thermal throttle and I don't have to figure out how to get more case airflow. The red color isn't too bright and blends in pretty well on most systems, black would be even better though.

Samsung SSD980 1TB をゲーム用ストレージとして使用して43~45℃程大型のヒートシンクにしては値段も安く、デザインもかっこいいですただしベース側のビス穴は長穴にはなっておらず、高さ調節が効かない場合によっては取り付けられないSSDもあるかも？また、ねじ切りが微妙でビスを真っすぐ入れるのには苦労しました

good product

無しでの使用、５５度。使用後、４５度を超える事がなくなった。効果は十二分にある。問題点が一つ、装着する台座、歪みがあり、すんなり装着出来ない。慎重に拡げ、装着完了、これがなければ星５つ。