Gen5 NVMe have active cooling

[BFG10K]

Consumer PCIe Gen 5 Gaming SSDs Arrive For Sale In Japan At A Smoking 10GB/s

The first PCIe 5.0 SSD popped up in Japan with a familiar face and blistering performance.

hothardware.com

A fan on an SSD? This is really getting quite ridiculous. These things are turning into GPUs.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

MSI SPATIUM M580 PCIe 5.0 NVMe M.2 FROZR LIQUID SSD

Haha, MSI has got to be trolling with this. This is the equivalent of something you'd see at SEMA.

 

[gdansk]

It's a product conceived to bring attention to MSI's brand, not to be practical.

 

[nOOky]

Yea so what. If an NVME SSD is going to run at its fastest rated speeds and needs cooling, I'd buy it if it cheap enough. Even if it doesn't feel faster in daily use but is twice as fast benchmarked, add RGB and I'm in

 

[BFG10K]

Trigger warning...

Comedy gold!

At these angles it looks like an extending brace to prop up heavy objects.

MSI Spatium M580 Liquid Frozr is an M.2 SSD with a Self Contained Liquid Cooling Loop

MSI Spatium M580 Liquid Frozr is easily one of the most interesting SSDs we've come across in CES 2024. Picture this—an M.2-2280 SSD that has a self-contained liquid cooler, complete with a fan, radiator, a pump-block, and coolant channels. This is both cute and a little sad. M.2 SSDs were...

www.techpowerup.com

 

[biostud]

Nice video about Phison controller øs

 

[DamZe]

I was on the fence lately if I should get a gen5 ssd, but for the price I don't see the leap in performance and value vs a fast gen4 drive. So I went with the "safer" option (WD Black SN850X).