Cooling for M.2 harddrives?

neviditelny · 3 Nov 2020 at 23:34

I'm planning to use 2xM.2 harddrives for my coming AMD build with an X570 motherboard (most likely the Tomahawk).
How much is cooling/heatsinks needed for M.2 drives? And which would you suggest for me to get?

ANDARIAL · 4 Nov 2020 at 08:26

That mobo has M2/nvme heatsinks as standard on the mobo i believe

clone · 4 Nov 2020 at 12:07

And if you have front fans blowing in you will be good.

neviditelny · 4 Nov 2020 at 15:45

clone said:
And if you have front fans blowing in you will be good.

The case I'm going to use is the Fractal Design Define 7 which has front fans blowing in if I understand it all right.

ANDARIAL said:
That mobo has M2/nvme heatsinks as standard on the mobo i believe

That sounds very promising.

clone · 4 Nov 2020 at 17:24

Yeh that's what helps mine but the board has a heating as well.