12V M.2 2280 SSD Heatsink with 40mm PWM Cooling Fan, Copper Heat Pipes and Thermal Pad, SSD Cooler for M.2 2280 NVMe & SATA SSD Only

Overall very happy with this purchase for a gen 5 SSD that was having heat problems under sustained writes as well as during GPU load. This has kept the drive in the 50-60C range throughout both scenarios even with a very minimal fan speed curve applied. I appreciate that the bottom bracket is also metal, which ought to perform much better for double-sided SSDs than the plastic brackets I see in competing products.I installed this unit in the M.2 slot between my CPU and first PCIe slot, which holds my GPU. I was a little concerned the GPU might encroach on this space enough to prevent installation but there was plenty of room. The fan cable had plenty of length to reach the fan header at the rear edge of the motherboard. I think it would have a hard time reaching headers at the south edge of the board, and it's definitely worthwhile to pay attention to which side you want the cable facing after installation so that you can mount the top piece in the appropriate direction.The only issue I had was during assembly. I opted to use Arctic TP-3 1mm thermal pads to have a known quantity. This appears to be the same thickness as the included pad, and the latter is stiffer and harder to deform so I believe the experience would be the same anyway. I applied a layer of pad to both the top spreader and the bottom bracket before assembling around the SSD. While the first screw hole was easy to align with the bracket's slot, it was difficult to apply enough pressure to align the next screw hole (diagonally across) enough to insert the screw without marring the area around the hole a bit. I know the dimensional requirements make side-mount screws a necessity, but by the end I was really wishing I could get the clamping behavior that would come with vertical screws.If I were buying all over again I would opt for 0.5mm thickness pads. I don't fault NewHail for any of this, especially since I didn't try their pads; I write the above just in case it helps someone. Once assembled, the bottom bracket did not hinder the SSD from making good contact with the mounting cam.Overall I'm very happy with this purchase, and I expect this to hold up just fine over time. Even if the small fan fails early, it appears that they kept it easy to swap that part out yourself. This may also come in handy if you do find the fan sound annoying.

I bought this M.2 cooler because I have a Crucial T700 PCIe Gen5 drive that chronically runs hot - so hot that running any kind of drive benchmarks on it will eventually cause it to throttle itself due getting too hot. Even idle the drive runs very hot.This cooler lowered the temperature on my drive by about 30 degree F (almost 17 degrees C). It is extremely effective and a bargain at $20 USD.Installation is a bit of a pain. You have to sandwich the M.2 drive between the cooler and bracket, screwing it into place. With a double-sided drive, this means squeezing it down a bit, making it hard to get the screws properly threaded. That was the biggest hassle.Mounting onto the motherboard was a snap (like any M.2 drive), and connecting to power was simple as well. My motherboard had a power header right next to the drive slot, but the unit comes with a relatively long power cable (6 - 8") that should suffice for most. I did have to configure my UEFI for PCM mode, and I turned off smart sensing to run the fan at max at all times.I am thoroughly impressed with the cooler. It works way better than I could have hoped.

I have a slightly older MSI C236 motherboard I use to host twenty-four 8TB drives to maintain a storage media server. Because it lives in my study I wind down the internal CPU and system fans to maintain 50C are the hard drives and to keep my sanity. But, the naked PCIe x3 SSD I use for my OS drive sits in an airflow dead zone. I tried passive heatsinks without success, which on reflection I should have anticipated.This active fan-cooled heatsink, with heatpipes, solves all my problems. It was easy to wrap around my SSD and when running is acceptably quiet and keeps the SSD about 10C cooler than before in a challenging environment. I wasn't experiencing any critical over-heats but this gives me so much more margin.Recommended.

Nice cooler but didn't fit my Team MP44L (2280) drive. Once installed, system didn't find the drive. I've installed only one other cooler like this (different brand) and that install was also much easier. The super tiny screw that holds one end in place is really a hassle to deal with. Ended up leaving out the spacer since the screw didn't seem long enough to reach the thread socket using the spacer. Seems well made but the Philips slot on the 4 screws is too small for any of my (dozens) of micro screwdrivers, so these were really hard to install.

My NZXT B650E motherboard's passive heat sink is a great lump of metal and does a decent job with temps but once it gets hot it stays that way. I'm using an NZXT H9 Flow case and it doesn't have any forward facing case fans that blow across the motherboard despite having 7 case fans and 3 AIO fans. This little gizmo solved the airflow dead zone problem nicely.As it provides its own airflow my Samsung 980 Pro now sheds its heat quite quickly and the fan is quiet as well. Solid value if you can make it fit.

This item does a fine job cooling, usually in the 110 degree F. Very quiet. However, 1 of the 4 housing screw holes did not align. Probably the heat cooling strip. I gave up and just used three screws. Probably not an issue in terms of performance, but disappointing in terms of workmanship.

A very cleverly designed heat sin k/fan for a single SSD internal drive. A little large, but I can't imaging a more effective cooling solution for an internal SSD.