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

Note this works very well for my 1 TB Samsung 970 drive. The usual temperature when running is 31 degrees C or about 88 degrees F. Also note that without a good heatsink, these drives get VERY HOT and will not last. Nor will they have the high reading or writing rates advertised if they get very much over 40 degrees C (or 104F). Do yourself a big favor and get a good heatsink when using any of these M2 (NVMe) drives. Then they will have a long and high performance life in your computer.

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

TLDR: at first testing, it dropped my 970 EVO 1TB from 86C max to 66C, and from 65C avg to 55C. (78F ambient)5-stars for performance, worth the cost if you have a hot SSD.I was hesitant to put this steam-punk looking contraption in my minimalist machine, but I'm glad I read the reviews and bought it.When installing I noticed the copper pipes and aluminum block don't completely cover the controller on the 970 EVO (see picture), but it seems to be working well enough for a 20C difference.I set the fan controller to PWM - yes it has 4 wires; perhaps others got an old model - HWinfo reports over 8,437rpm max, 6,459rpm min, so it appears to be working (that seems fast compared to my 120MM fans: 900-2700rpm).I wish my motherboard could read the temp of the SSD to control that fan, but I'm going off "system" temp, so I set it a bit high, I guess."System" temp ranged from 42-53C during last log; good enough to vary this fan's speed according to total usage.Either way, with the speed under control, I can't really hear this fan over the others in the case.This is replacing the generic black passive aluminum heatsink that's ~10-15 USD on amazon. That did make a difference, about 8-10C max if I recall. Yes, the 970 EVO "temp 2" was hitting ~95C naked. So, this heatsink is far superior as the old logs are with the passive aluminum.*if you caught that the Temp 1 min is lower in the 'before' pic, I think that's bc it was completely cold, vs the 'after' was warm from only having time to cool down when I was installing the heatsink.

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.