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Please accept my apologies if the following question is stupid.
I'm in the process of building my next rig using a mini ITX motherboard (ROG Strix B650E-I)
Like a lot of motherboards, it has a couple of M.2 slots - One is on the front underneath a fairly chunky heatsink and thermal pad and the other is on the rear. Albeit the one on the rear has no such heatsink.
So my naive/daft question is this - The presence of the heatsink/thermal pad on the front of the board suggests that NVMEs get hot and require cooling. If that assumption is correct then is there any risk of using a second NVME on the back of the board when there's no such cooling in place?
Again, I'm sorry if it's a silly question. We all have to learn from somewhere.
I'm in the process of building my next rig using a mini ITX motherboard (ROG Strix B650E-I)
Like a lot of motherboards, it has a couple of M.2 slots - One is on the front underneath a fairly chunky heatsink and thermal pad and the other is on the rear. Albeit the one on the rear has no such heatsink.
So my naive/daft question is this - The presence of the heatsink/thermal pad on the front of the board suggests that NVMEs get hot and require cooling. If that assumption is correct then is there any risk of using a second NVME on the back of the board when there's no such cooling in place?
Again, I'm sorry if it's a silly question. We all have to learn from somewhere.
