Review iHTP M.2 2280 NVMe Cooler Review: The best SSD heatsink only costs $6.99

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Pricing is likely weird due to limited stock and it being sold out.

I'm not totally sold on using a M.2 cooler with fan, but if you were using an AIO it should also add minor airflow over the socket for the bigger ones like this.

I know it would just add to the work, but I wonder if one of the AIOs with a fan on the block would move air enough to help with the passive SSD cooling. Though I suppose if Arctic sent you their offset LGA 1851 mount it'd be a good excuse to pull one of the LFIIIs out and then test this as well.
 
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Joel02 said:
The price is showing up as $22.10 on your Amazon link.
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I'm not sure what's going on for sure, I am not smart enough to understand.

But I have to wonder if it has anything to do with the comments I made about iHTP possibly being a front for DeepCool to illegally sell their products in the USA under a different brand name.

Only time will tell.
 
I don't understand how that works so well considering it doesn't use a heatpipe, and it's stretching the limits of aluminum heat transfer speed.

I'd love to see a FLIR shot of it.
 
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Why no transfer tests? At least synthetc ones, but naturally a more real life test eg game loading, copy-paste of several gb file and few thousands of smaller files. I dont care if it gets hot. I would not care if file operations are a little bit longer - depending on how much. And thats the thing not tested/shown here. So the test is generally useless.
 
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Why no transfer tests? At least synthetc ones, but naturally a more real life test eg game loading, copy-paste of several gb file and few thousands of smaller files. I dont care if it gets hot. I would not care if file operations are a little bit longer - depending on how much. And thats the thing not tested/shown here. So the test is generally useless.
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These tests are designed to determine which of these products have the best thermal dissapation. Unless they fail my tests and throttle, there should be little variance in actual performance for most users. With these higher end heatsinks, a common user is not going to notice a performance difference.

I hope this helps you.
 
m3city said:
Why no transfer tests? At least synthetc ones, but naturally a more real life test eg game loading, copy-paste of several gb file and few thousands of smaller files. I dont care if it gets hot. I would not care if file operations are a little bit longer - depending on how much. And thats the thing not tested/shown here. So the test is generally useless.
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The primary source of heat on a SSD is the controller so throttling is the important part. These do not work like modern CPUs/GPUs with dynamic clocks so as long as it isn't throttling controller performance won't vary based on cooling. No mass market SSD cooler is going to drop NAND temperatures enough to affect its performance.
 
So, whats the point of using a ssd cooler at all? I have passive heatsinks installed in all my setups, but did that based on assumption thats the thing to do. If it does not affect noticabely performance, then well, i spent some money on sth unnecessary. Such cooler teansfers heat from ssd surface to a few cm above, and the heat energy still stays in pc case.
 
m3city said:
So, whats the point of using a ssd cooler at all? I have passive heatsinks installed in all my setups, but did that based on assumption thats the thing to do. If it does not affect noticabely performance, then well, i spent some money on sth unnecessary. Such cooler teansfers heat from ssd surface to a few cm above, and the heat energy still stays in pc case.
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The reason you need a heatsink is cooling the controller. Under sustained loads the controllers will thermal throttle to a minimum speed and drop performance. How much cooling you need entirely depends on the workload you have. Sustained loads, especially write heavy, will require much better cooling. The testing done here is designed to represent a worst case scenario which means any cooler which prevents throttling in testing should be good. From my personal experience I can say that for longer term sustained usage airflow, even a little, helps a lot.

My server box has cheap Thermalright coolers which are basically just aluminum slabs on all but two of my drives. These would not work well if the drives were under load often, but they're not so the added surface area alone lowers temperatures. One of the drives with a different heatsink is using the motherboard provided one and the other is my OS drive which has one with a heatpipe.
 
m3city said:
So, whats the point of using a ssd cooler at all? I have passive heatsinks installed in all my setups, but did that based on assumption thats the thing to do. If it does not affect noticabely performance, then well, i spent some money on sth unnecessary. Such cooler teansfers heat from ssd surface to a few cm above, and the heat energy still stays in pc case.
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If you are only doing basic tasks, like gaming and whatnot - then as long as you have a heatsink of some type you should be fine. You do need *some* sort of cooling, but nothing too fancy.

For most common users, the main impact of better cooling can be the longevity of the drive.
 
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