M.2 Thermal Pad Thickness.

[AStaley]

In the not distant future I'll be swapping over the two NVMe drives in my system to Samsung 980 Pro's and want to change the thermal pads along with the drive.

Does anyone know what thickness I need, looking at the current pads I think it's 1.5mm, but could be 2mm? Or does it really matter, the pads seem to be quite squishy so as long as it's making contact with the heatsink it should do it's job.

 

[pp111]

Depends on the heatsink. The ones that I use seem to tolerate any thickness and the nvme's I have prefer a thicker pad because the main components are different heights and the slightly thicker, "squishy" pads deal with that better.