Review UpHere M201 SSD Heatsink Review: $5 for essential NVMe cooling

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Featuring a low profile and an even lower price of only $5 USD, UpHere’s M201 NVMe M.2 heatsink provides essential cooling performance for your SSD, with broad compatibility.

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[thestryker]

This seems like the best design I've seen for the cheap ones, but that retention mechanism makes me wonder how it would hold up over a long period of time.

I've been kicking around replacing the Thermalright AB I have on my OS Optane drive as it actually runs so it's 10-12C hotter than the other ones. The problem I have is that I don't have much room height wise so I think this would be just enough taller it wouldn't fly as my NIC has a heatsink in the way. Been contemplating trying the Thermalright M.2 2280 PRO and since it's pretty cheap I may just do that, but off the reviews here I think the BeQuiet MC1 PRO is probably the only other one small enough to really consider.

 

[SyCoREAPER]

I'm using the HR09 Pro (absolute unit) from the chart for cooling and have had good results. Not because I think it's necessarily a good design but rather air can actually reach it since the RAM was blocking it before.

One thing is for sure, definitely not a fan (no pun intended) of ones with fans. Those tiny things are usually loud, odd/annoying auditory frequency.

 

[Albert.Thomas]

This seems like the best design I've seen for the cheap ones, but that retention mechanism makes me wonder how it would hold up over a long period of time.

I've been kicking around replacing the Thermalright AB I have on my OS Optane drive as it actually runs so it's 10-12C hotter than the other ones. The problem I have is that I don't have much room height wise so I think this would be just enough taller it wouldn't fly as my NIC has a heatsink in the way. Been contemplating trying the Thermalright M.2 2280 PRO and since it's pretty cheap I may just do that, but off the reviews here I think the BeQuiet MC1 PRO is probably the only other one small enough to really consider.

Honestly, I'd probably recommend Iceberg Thermal's IceFLOE instead. It's slightly more expensive, but barely, and has a much better installation process.

 

[Albert.Thomas]

I'm using the HR09 Pro (absolute unit) from the chart for cooling and have had good results. Not because I think it's necessarily a good design but rather air can actually reach it since the RAM was blocking it before.

One thing is for sure, definitely not a fan (no pun intended) of ones with fans. Those tiny things are usually loud, odd/annoying auditory frequency.

Yeah, you definitely don't want or need them to run at full speed. I usually run them at 67% PWM.

 

[thestryker]

Honestly, I'd probably recommend Iceberg Thermal's IceFLOE instead. It's slightly more expensive, but barely, and has a much better installation process.

Ironically the terrible retention method would work better for the drives I have in addon cards as there isn't enough room to put screws in on the near sides for each drive. Those drives are all just caching drives so I've never had any temp problems there though so I'm not particularly worried about it (they have Type AB with screws on one side).

For the P1600X I'm using as a boot drive I went ahead and got the Thermalright M.2 2280 PRO and so far it's running about 10C cooler than the Type AB it replaced. I just changed it today so it'll probably take a while to be sure how much better it is as the system is in operation. Realistically it wasn't really an issue before as it was running ~51C, but I knew the cooler was the majority of the reason there.

edit: drive seems to have stabilized at 42C and previously it was 51C, but if something changes I'll update this post. Would really like to see where the M.2 2280 PRO falls on your testing list here.