M.2 Heatsink

[nheather]

Hi,

Just checking my reasoning. I have just bought and installed a Gen 4.0 M.2, it doesn’t have a heatsink.

I did consider buying the version with a heatsink or even buying a third party heatsink but decided that it probably wouldn’t need one because it’s going on a motherboard that only supports Gen 3.0 so is only going to be running at half the read and write speeds that the ‘disk’ is rated at.

Is my rational sound?

 

[nheather]

I’ve ordered a heatsink. As you say, keeping it a little cooler can’t be a bad thing even if it isn’t really necessary.