Submitted 1 year ago by criticalthreshold@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/pny-cs3150-pcie-5.0-ssd-has-two-fans-and-rgb
We’ll likely learn more about how efficient these drives are early next year at CES 2024 or not long after. So if you’re not keen on a PCIe 5.0 drive due to fans and bulky coolers, you might not have long to wait for better options. Just don’t expect them to be cheap when all signs are pointing to SSD price increases next year.
How long until these M.2 SSDs get their own SATA power connector?
Seriously. I’m just wating for a 3,5" form factor SSD where most of the chassis is cooling and inside it’s just a 2230m.2
8-Pin please.
Grahics card started out like this as well…
The rgb is just to be able to sell this without having to solve the heating problem. Vote with your wallet lads.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
While there’s definitely an argument to be made about RGB overload, there’s no doubt that colored lights can make a component stand out, whether on the shelf or in your system.
So it’s no surprise that PNY is trying to appeal to the masses by giving you some aesthetic options with its latest XLR8 CS3150 PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD.
So far, all PCIe 5.0 SSDs with Phison chips are either provided with passive cooling such as the Aorus Gen 5 and the Crucial T700, or with a heatsink pre-installed and a tiny fan like Micro-Center’s in-house brand Inland TD510.
Naturally, it depends on how the cooling is designed to complement the chips and their layout, as well as how much air is already circulating in your case and around your M.2 slot.
But one of the appealing aspects of an M.2 drive has been its thin form factor, which can hidden away under motherboard shrouds, like a six-M.2-slot ASRock Z790 Nova WiFi.
In the meantime, Corsair sells a liquid cooling block for this 2280 form factor NVMe drive, which reminds me of the days of squeezing performance from Intel’s Prescott Pentium 4 processors, which were inefficient for their time.
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Spitfire@pawb.social 1 year ago
Do PCIe 5.0 drives just put out that much heat?
I know a lot of boards have the m2 slot under the GPU, no way this would fit.
criticalthreshold@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If, and that’s a big if, this becomes a trend, then we’re likely to see the m2 connector locations on the mobo change (at least the primary lane connected to the CPU).
But to your point, this definitely won’t fit under a GPU lol
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Yes, the ssd controller basically has double thr output of data each pci-e generation. The rate as well as the power consumption required to run at those speeds dump a lot of heat.
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 year ago
Doesn’t it look like it’s for PCI express?
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Idk what you think those drives are made of.
Definitely not SATa or IDE.