M.2 Heatsink Copper

You can see everything is hot, except where this heat sink is located. I guess I need it to be a little bit longer. Now I can use an SSD in this $10 case which was designed for older smaller SSDs.This replaces the old aluminum Apple TV remote I was using as a heat sinkI need that remote to work my Apple TV to import the videoThis budget case: orico the aluminum enclosure was too small and light so it overheated quickly and then the drive shut down but with this heat sink, copper is the best conductor of heat and it’s very heavy so it has plenty of mass to absorb the heat, It doesn’t matter if the case is made of metal if it’s a beer can it needs to have mass to absorb the heat and this stayed cool.look how cool this is. I’m trying to edit the video nowI put the SSD through its paces. I’m wondering if I should attach it directly to the SSD, I removed the cover from this case but it has its own heat sink;which this is connected to so now it has the needed mass and cooling. You can see how much hotter the areas are without these fins and mass added.I think I need the heat sink as it’s part of the case, holding the drive in place but it was too small and light to be a good heat sink so with this added to the drive it will never overheat againnow and I’m just using one small rubber band to hold it on in addition to the sticky pad, which is also supposed to conduct heat, so look at thisthese are really low temperatures.There were a lot of spaces for air which is an insulator so I did use the supplied thermal pad to connect this to the heat sink, which also seems to secure the drive.The drive is a 2 TB western digital 770 as i found these to be the best because they have a 600 GB cache so they don’t slow down when transferring large files for videoWhen doing research I found out this is the Drive that the SanDisk pro version two uses and the SanDisk extreme portable version one is the 570 which is also sufficient and would be fine in this case with the maximum speed of 1000 on Mac anyway unless using thunderboltI hate the crucial X8 with its tiny 256 cache even at 2TB for this reasonI can only use that for tiny filesthis case, wasn’t designed for something that would generate this much heat if the file is larger than many older drivesI’ll be back with Links and videoIf you don’t want to spend $10 on the oRico +8 dollars for this heat sink you can also spend 90 on the other world computing envoy with built-in thunderbolt cable but it won’t be much faster for the extra $70. It’s just more portable.Also, that case has much more mass so you don’t need to add a heat sink it already is a heat sinkSo I have both set upsThis set up does not travel wellYou would need to buy like a pelican case with foam to transport itThis way any impact on the fans would be directly transferred to the SSDbut the pads there are two of themso they’re like bumpers and I hear these are pretty durable.I bet These are what they use in flight recorders

Its solid copper and heavy for its size, which is what I want for an heatsink that I can reuse on different NVme's. Better than aluminum when clearance and weight is not and issue.

Fits and works great on my 2TB NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen3x4 2280 SSD. Before I didn't have a heatsink on my drive it would reach up to 55-61°C when playing games. Now it is 37-44°C while playing. Appears to be copper or has copper on it. It is much heavier than the aluminum ones that came with my mother board. Comes with a sticky thermal pad that works really well. (Just make sure you remove the plastic on both sides) Also came with clear rubber bands to help keep it attached to your NVMe if you want to feel more secure. I have a vertical set up but I am going to see if the sticky pad is enough to keep it in place. If it doesn't then I will use the bands.

Bought these to reduce the temperatures of the backplate/vram on a Strix 3090. Definitely made a significant difference. Went from approx 90-100 mh/s limited at 100c and 75% gpu fan to 123 mh/s around 96-100C with gpu fan levels varying around 60%. Nicehash quickminer. Used 8 of these in total. Do have very good airflow in case though, which is definitely required.Supplied thermal pad performance is good enough then, and its somewhat sticky. Won't suffice in a vertical position but is definitely sticky enough for moving the PC around when it's horizontal. I'm buying a couple more, but this time actually for its intended purpose, the SSD's.

I used these for an m.2 drive in my pc

Dropped my SSD resting temperature by 20F, active about 5-10F. Came with a thermal strip and three silicon bands, installation was simple as well. Great value for the price.

Ordered these twice. The 1st order was perfect. Copper Heatsink was flawless. Shiny with no defects.2nd order, the corners were damaged and bottom side had some residue. See photos. Not sure if I received a used one this time.

Nice and solid, fit on my M-2 that was mounted on the back of my motherboard where it had no heatsink. MOBO came with thermal tape but if it had not, this would have been only part of the solution as it did not come with thermal tape to attach to the M2. Looks good and contact area was perfectly smooth so it is well made.