[SOLVED] Hikvision and Cryorig Frostbit

[JannieG]

Hi all

I bought the Hikvision E2000 512GB M.2 PCI-e Gen 3 x 4 NVMe 3D NAND SSD just over 5 months ago and it works very well.
It came with a heatsink that worked well. Dropped the temperature of the drive by more than 10 degrees C.

I then stumbled upon the Cryorig Frostbit and I just couldn’t resist! It just looks cool!

Here is the problem: As soon as I fit the Cryorig, the drive stops working. I can’t see it in the BIOS or in Windows, or any other way I could come up with. If I remove the heat sink and just plug the the drive in, it works! I am stumped… Obviously I don’t have the old heat sink (did not cause the same problem) anymore. I mean, why keep it if you have something cooler!

I have the Gigabyte Auros Gaming 5 Z270 Mobo with the latest BIOS version. Not sure if adding other system info would make a difference.

Hope someone can shed some light on this peculiarity.

Thanks!
Jannie

 

[jojesa]

Hi all

I bought the Hikvision E2000 512GB M.2 PCI-e Gen 3 x 4 NVMe 3D NAND SSD just over 5 months ago and it works very well.
It came with a heatsink that worked well. Dropped the temperature of the drive by more than 10 degrees C.

I then stumbled upon the Cryorig Frostbit and I just couldn’t resist! It just looks cool!

Here is the problem: As soon as I fit the Cryorig, the drive stops working. I can’t see it in the BIOS or in Windows, or any other way I could come up with. If I remove the heat sink and just plug the the drive in, it works! I am stumped… Obviously I don’t have the old heat sink (did not cause the same problem) anymore. I mean, why keep it if you have something cooler!

I have the Gigabyte Auros Gaming 5 Z270 Mobo with the latest BIOS version. Not sure if adding other system info would make a difference.

Hope someone can shed some light on this peculiarity.

Thanks!
Jannie

It could be that the heatsink metal surface is making contact with the M.2 causing it to stop working. I saw a similar product cause this problem and damaged the SSD.

For maximum write performance M.2 NVMe SSDs should be operating above 40°C. That massive heatsink might cause the M.2 NVMe to operate close to room temperature, which will lower performance and could cut life data retention in half.

Also, some of these heatsinks are only compatible with single side M.2 SSDs.

I don't think that massive heatsink is required on a M.2 PCI-e Gen 3 NVMe flash storage chips.
Maybe a M.2 like the Samsung 980 Pro with speeds of 6900 MBps and if data were written to it constantly (heavy use) without proper ventilation it could required a heatsink on the controller.