They are nearly useless. They don't even use copper or have a mirror finish for the contact area. It's similar to dimm heatsinks or the old chipset/gpu heatsinks which had a 50 grit or worse sanding job. I'm guessing whatever thermal tape/compound they use is basically the worst on the market also.
Ugh, where to start... 1. These are packaged chips and not naked silicon. If you have ever run your finger over the black plastic on DRAM, you might notice they are not smooth. 2a. They are using a thermal pad anyways. Unlike thermal paste, when you use a pad, the only important things are flatness, evenly distributed pressure, and proper contact. 2b. SSDs are comprised of multiple BGA chips. They have to use a thermal pad, because each SSD will have height discrepancies between each chip. It is well established practice to use thermal pads in such instances. For example GPU DRAM and MOSFETS get their own heatsink and use thermal pads. 3. It's not 50 grit. Have you ever used 50 grit sandpaper? That stuff is used to flatten out lumps. The base of heatsinks for SSDs is more like 400 grit, but very flat. 4. A mirror finish base plate contact area does not improve performance anyways. Being flat and having 800-1200 grit smoothness is plenty for peak performance when used on naked silicon.
Now, does this Patriot SSD heatsink leave a lot to be desired? Yes. I would have used a nickle plated copper base with soldered on aluminum fins for at least double the fins and surface area. These SSDs apparently run cool enough with 7 thick fins and a rear plate.
Try even fitting this into a laptop. GOOD LUCK. in most cases laptops need ones that are without heat shield, and use laptop provided cooling or slower or ones that somehow can fit those 2mm thick copper slabs, just for thermal capacity not cooling.
I think it's silly to complain about high end SSDs requiring active cooling. Especially when it comes to mobile.
It's like complaining that an i7 or R7 can't run passively inside your laptop while hitting boost speeds. Not even Apple's M2 can run optimally with passive cooling only.
If you want passive only, get a WD Blue SN570/SN580. You trade off speed, but they don't require a heatsink, even inside of a laptop.
At least that's the mentally vacant buyer this appeals to and there are lots of them around as always so this thing can help relieve silly people of their money.
it's 11watts at full high speed load, any heatsink is required when fully loaded without throttling when connected over pcie version 5, obviously a slower drive and even this one running on pcie3 would not need it and some models even have the option of either with or without like the sn850x, obviously there are different tiers of products and limitations of physics, obviously the price difference between a $50 ssd and a $100 ssd is meaningless in the end, OBVIOUSLY
almost every article you make disgusting replies attacking products and people, pretending niche products are bought by masses, pretending personal joy is not emotional wealth, you are a nasty grinch sick in the head
"...pretending niche products are bought by masses..."
At no point have I stated this product is anything but a niche item intended to appeal to a certain buying segment. In fact, I quite obviously implied that was the case. I'm not sure how you managed the mental gymnastics to arrive at an opposite conclusion except that it would benefit whatever point you think you're trying to make here - a point that is unclear based on the scattered nature of your comment.
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web2dot0 - Wednesday, February 7, 2024 - link
Comically stupid to have active cooling on an ssd.Not practical in mobile and power consumption is through the roof.
Totally useless in consumer level devices. The future is mobile, not desktop.
Samus - Wednesday, February 7, 2024 - link
Just imagine the noise from that little shit fan when the bearings go, I'm sure it's a great quality fan lolSoulkeeper - Wednesday, February 7, 2024 - link
They are nearly useless.They don't even use copper or have a mirror finish for the contact area.
It's similar to dimm heatsinks or the old chipset/gpu heatsinks which had a 50 grit or worse sanding job. I'm guessing whatever thermal tape/compound they use is basically the worst on the market also.
meacupla - Thursday, February 8, 2024 - link
Ugh, where to start...1. These are packaged chips and not naked silicon. If you have ever run your finger over the black plastic on DRAM, you might notice they are not smooth.
2a. They are using a thermal pad anyways. Unlike thermal paste, when you use a pad, the only important things are flatness, evenly distributed pressure, and proper contact.
2b. SSDs are comprised of multiple BGA chips. They have to use a thermal pad, because each SSD will have height discrepancies between each chip. It is well established practice to use thermal pads in such instances. For example GPU DRAM and MOSFETS get their own heatsink and use thermal pads.
3. It's not 50 grit. Have you ever used 50 grit sandpaper? That stuff is used to flatten out lumps. The base of heatsinks for SSDs is more like 400 grit, but very flat.
4. A mirror finish base plate contact area does not improve performance anyways. Being flat and having 800-1200 grit smoothness is plenty for peak performance when used on naked silicon.
Now, does this Patriot SSD heatsink leave a lot to be desired? Yes.
I would have used a nickle plated copper base with soldered on aluminum fins for at least double the fins and surface area.
These SSDs apparently run cool enough with 7 thick fins and a rear plate.
deil - Thursday, February 8, 2024 - link
Try even fitting this into a laptop. GOOD LUCK.in most cases laptops need ones that are without heat shield, and use laptop provided cooling or
slower or ones that somehow can fit those 2mm thick copper slabs, just for thermal capacity not cooling.
kn00tcn - Thursday, February 8, 2024 - link
wtf does a laptop need 12MB/s for?? wtf is so wrong about having a variety of products and performance tiers??Samus - Thursday, February 8, 2024 - link
12MB/s!? Pfft. Bro my whip has 20MB/s!jmke - Thursday, February 8, 2024 - link
> The future is mobile, not desktop.the future is the best tool for the job at hand; be it mobile or desktop, or remote;
no reason to be exclusive
web2dot0 - Thursday, February 8, 2024 - link
Vision Pro says otherwise 😂shabby - Thursday, February 8, 2024 - link
What does it say?meacupla - Thursday, February 8, 2024 - link
I think it's silly to complain about high end SSDs requiring active cooling.Especially when it comes to mobile.
It's like complaining that an i7 or R7 can't run passively inside your laptop while hitting boost speeds.
Not even Apple's M2 can run optimally with passive cooling only.
If you want passive only, get a WD Blue SN570/SN580. You trade off speed, but they don't require a heatsink, even inside of a laptop.
PeachNCream - Thursday, February 8, 2024 - link
Huge HSF = PerformanceAt least that's the mentally vacant buyer this appeals to and there are lots of them around as always so this thing can help relieve silly people of their money.
kn00tcn - Thursday, February 8, 2024 - link
it's 11watts at full high speed load, any heatsink is required when fully loaded without throttling when connected over pcie version 5, obviously a slower drive and even this one running on pcie3 would not need it and some models even have the option of either with or without like the sn850x, obviously there are different tiers of products and limitations of physics, obviously the price difference between a $50 ssd and a $100 ssd is meaningless in the end, OBVIOUSLYalmost every article you make disgusting replies attacking products and people, pretending niche products are bought by masses, pretending personal joy is not emotional wealth, you are a nasty grinch sick in the head
PeachNCream - Thursday, February 8, 2024 - link
"...pretending niche products are bought by masses..."At no point have I stated this product is anything but a niche item intended to appeal to a certain buying segment. In fact, I quite obviously implied that was the case. I'm not sure how you managed the mental gymnastics to arrive at an opposite conclusion except that it would benefit whatever point you think you're trying to make here - a point that is unclear based on the scattered nature of your comment.