ineo M.2 2280 Heatsink with 20mm Fan, Pure Cooper Strip

The product description claims a fan speed of 10,000 rpm and thermal performance of 8°C - 25°C. I was skeptical about both the fan speed and the possibility that a fan the size of a dime would actually make a significant difference, so I did some testing. I was wrong. SSDs run hot, but without really pushing them you'll never know just how hot they can get. I used HWiNFO 64 to measure fan speed and SSD temperature, and Atto disk benchmark to measure SSD performance. In order to ensure the SSD was stressed as much as possible, Atto was configured to use a 32 GB test file. Testing with no cooler, the SSD reached a temperature of 105 °C and began thermal throttling roughly one third of the way through the benchmark run. Throughput before throttling was roughly 2.9 GB/s write, 3.3 GB/s read. After throttling began throughput dropped to roughly 1.1 GB/s write, 1.5 GB/s read. Still pretty fast, but well below the drive manufacturers promised throughput. This is normal for SSDs. Drive manufacturers advertise peak throughput and leave out the details about sustained throughput. This particular drive actually performed excellent; when stressed in this manner, some SSDs throttle back to speeds that make hard drives competitive. With the cooler installed, HWiNFO reported a fan speed of just over 15,000 rpm, substantially higher than the advertised speed. The Atto benchmark run was completed with no thermal throttling, and the SSD's peak temperature was 62°C, a 43°C difference. Obviously, this is substantially better than the cooler manufacturer's 8°C - 25°C performance promise. Fan noise from the cooler at 15k rpm was just enough to be annoying. The cooler is designed to plug into any motherboard fan header and doing so gives you control over fan speed. Changing the fan speed to 8000 rpm eliminated the noise, still eliminated thermal throttling, and yielded a peak temperature of 74°C. This is 31C better than running the SSD with no cooler, and once again, better than the manufacturer's performance promise. In both cases the cooler reduced idle temperature from 70°C to 56°C. A passive heatsink may meet your needs as well as this cooler while costing less, and installing this cooler is moderately more complicated than installing a passive heatsink. But a passive heatsink is potentially bulkier, less effective, or both. This cooler is compact and delivers substantially more than it promises. If you don't stress your SSD, you probably don't need a cooler at all. If you do, you should definitely consider this one.

Great cooler for gen 4 nvme, idle temps went from ~50 c to 30 c. So definitely worth getting but it is not pwm as it is advertised so it had to attach it to my 3 pin dc fan hub. Also fits under tower cooler.

I had a JEYI NVMe M.2 SSD Cooler Heatsinks with 20mm Fan Powerful Cooling that had a failing fan that was annoying the heck out me making a squeaking noise. Replaced with this, and wish I'd have done it much sooner! This is cooling my SSD about 17 degrees C more than nothing, about 8-10 more than my old JEYI. This also has a nice long 4pin fan connector that should be able to reach any open FAN connector you have on your mobo. Edit: When this is at 100% RPM it's kinda loud/annoying. I also have a very quiet system because I have AIO water cooled CPU fan. I manually set it in my BIOS to only run at 60% (lowest my mobo could go). SSD is only like 1-2 degrees warmer (only 43), and it's much nicer sound wise so sticking with that. I almost wonder if I'd have been better off with a PCI slot Graphics Card Cooling Bracket Chassis Heat Dissipation Side-Blown Bracket Vertical Cooling Fan Mounting Bracket Supports type thing though. In my setup, I'd be able to do 60mm fans instead of the 20mm this has.

I recently upgraded to a Samsung 970 EVO Plus and running/idle temperatures were 42-44C at idle/using light applications. Using while gaming the temps maxed out at about 65C. With this heatsink installed running/idle temps were down to about 39-42C, but never got above 50C while gaming. You definitely will need to adjust the fan settings in your BIOS for this. I had mine run at about 6volts at 39C up to 12 volts at 48C. Installation was pretty straightforward but the instructions could be a little bit clearer about the silicone thermal pads. There are two clear plastic films you have to remove, one is really thin and, the other is thicker and keeps the pad from bending while applying to the heatsink. Sort of a pain to get it applied because it doesn't truly 'stick', but I did mine with no problems. Happy with it and would probably buy another if the fan on mine goes out.

Seems like a decent enough piece of equipment but it sounds like there's a swarm of angry hornets trapped inside my case. I also did not appreciate getting an item that had clearly been returned (the packaging was in ruins) probably due to the noise. I have now unplugged the fan and will see how it does as a passive cooler.

Using this to cool a Samsung NVMe 970 PRO. Magician showed the SSD to be running at 51C and labeled it as "hot." I installed the ineo heatsink per instructions. The instructions said nothing about removing the clear plastic cover from the conductive tape, but my ASUS motherboard instructions stated that the plastic needed to be removed on their conductive tapes, so I removed the clear plastic covering. After installation the temperature showed as 49C. Big disappointment. I also cleaned the computer case fan and filter during the ineo isntallation. They were filthy. A couple of hours later I realized that I had reinstalled the case fan backwards. I changed the fan back to where it was blowing in - I have a second fan at the back that blows out - and brought up Magician after running the computer for a couple of hours. The temperature went from 49C to 42C. This was a worthwhile purchase. The bottom line: The ineo cooler can only cool your SSD down to near the temperature inside your case. As an aside, don't forget to calibrate the fans in your BIOS if you have an ASUS motherboard.

The fact that it has an actual heat pipe instead of copper pipes like in the Sabrent was a positive point. The fan is slightly loud at full speed, however, I have a bunch of Noctua low noise adapters and it is almost inaudible after plugging it in. It successfully brought my SSD a small, hot mini-ITX box under control, whereas 3 different passive heatsinks I tried previously failed. I'd recommend that you swap the thermal pads for Gelid's 1.5mm and 0.5mm thick ones, as they are much better at conducting heat, and softer to conform height differences of the controller and NAND. You might also want to cut around the DRAM on the bottom as the 0.5mm thick pads will not be able to compress enough. Product origin: China Company origin: Taiwan

冷却性能には満足していますが、ファンがびっくりするほどうるさいです。 常に冷却ファンが全力で回り続けており、電動シェーバーみたいな音が鳴り続けています。 必要ないときは回転数落とすみたいなこともしないみたいなので、フルタワーPCに5つついてるファン全部足したのよりうるさいですが、一番大事な冷却自体はできてるのでまぁいいかなという感じです。

The heatsink does it's job on cooling down my M.2 SSD. The only problem was that mine did not come with any thermal pads in the box. Not sure if I got a resealed heatsink or it was missed in packaging the product. I ended up having to use my own thermal pads for assembly. Not too upset by it, as I have a plethora of PC parts laying around, including thermal pads. Just be on the lookout for missing items in the box. Would recommend to those who don't have a heatsink to use on their SSD.

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Keeps my drive running cool