SABRENTM.2 2280 SSD Rocket Heatsink in Silver (SB-HTSS)

Perfect heat sink for an NVME drive if it'll fit into your system. Some motherboards put the nvme slot into a place between the cpu and the graphics card, that may be a tight fit, so check to make sure you have the clearance for it.I put this into a secondary gen 4 slot on my 12th gen motherboard, a bit away from other components. No trouble with the fit. A small form factor system may have some problems with it.#1 pay attention, the screws are all black and screwed into the black foam 'protector' that the heat sink and little useless screwdriver are. And put down a white cloth, because they don't easily 'unscrew' and you have to pick at them to get them out. Where at least one will attempt to fly across the floor and become one with your dust bunnies. There are 5. Four are the same and screw the two parts of the heatsink together over the drive. The other is the m.2 mounting screw, which was definitely designed by the same folks who made the usb A connector the same shape, but its always upside down when you try to plug it in.If you don't have a decent length screwdriver handle with a very magnetic bit in it, good luck getting the little m.2 screw into the motherboard standoff without dropping it 15 times. So get the good computer screwdriver out. I still remember the first time I tried to get an m.2 screw in on a new drive without getting the right tool out for the job. Unless you have amazing dexterity, little fingers and great fine motor control, you'll be frustrated in no time. And yes, I did used to have my little kid put these in, because his little hands checked all of those boxes!This comes in two aluminum pieces. Each has a thermal pad on it that is slightly sticky. You remove the protective film covering the thermal pads on each piece, line the drive up on the bottom piece such that the screw hole at one end lines up with the screw hole on the drive, just align it all the way to that side. Then place the top aluminum part on with the four screwholes in alignment, and install the four thicker screws to assemble the heatsink.Be sure your motherboard has the little m.2 standoff that the tiny little screw goes into. If you have a largish screw hole where the drives screw is supposed to go, you'll want to find that m.2 standoff and screw that in before you proceed. If you have the little protruding standoff already there, or you're replacing another drive, you're good to go.The pads aren't that sticky. At one point I managed to move the drive a little bit out of line after I screwed everything together, but it slid back over with a gentle nudge.There is a 3rd pad included. If you have a single sided drive (mostly those in the 250GB-1TB sizes) you'll need to stick that on the bottom thermal pad to make sure it fills the gap where the flash chips would be on the bottom of a 2-4+TB drive. Mine was a 2tb with chips on both sides of the drive, so I didn't need that.Does it work? Hell yeah!!Cold booted, I saw 28c on the drive, so that's our floor temperature.With the machine powered on for a while, its idle temperature is around 40c. With crystaldiskmark running the full test suite, the drive tended towards 45c and hit a max of 46c. My other drive, buried under the motherboard included heatsink and as a gen 3 drive, idles at 38c for comparison.Perfect. With the 2tb ssd pushing 7500/6700, I'm nowhere near the throttle limit of the ssd controller or the flash chips.This is a highly over engineered, well functioning cooler for your expensive gen 4 drive. It will also work fine for gen 3 drives/motherboards. Its almost comical how large it is and its heat pipes. I worked for a tech company, and took the heatsink to a group lunch and showed it off. Everyone thought it was hilarious and wanted to know how it worked out.Very well. If you have the space for this (I don't think it fits in a ps5, but I don't have one), and you have a high end drive that you want the best performance and lifespan out of, this is a fine spend of about twenty bucks.

Pros:++ Packaging was excellent. (Everything is seated in foam securely.)++ Craftsmanship of heat sink is of quality. (Nothing looked or felt cheap.)++ Temps went down from 75c to around 55c.++ Easy to assemble and install++ No real fitment issuesCons:-- Supplied screw is a bit too long. (SSD w/ heat sink was loose after installation.)-- May interfere with your motherboard depending on type of motherboard and your drive.- Overall:Everything was packaged well and the build quality is really good. The kit includes:1x bottom plate w/ thermal pad1x top plate Heatsink w/ thermal pad4x Heatsink screws1x M.2 mounting screw1x Extra thermal pad for single sided drives1x Screw Driver1x Instruction BookletAs for the temps, they came down 20 degrees C.Passmark Performance Test showed a score of 10,900 before and over 14,000 after installation, just by running cooler!The SSD/Heatsink combo was easy to install and the kit even includes an extra thermal pad for single sided M.2 SSD's like I have. (What this means is, when the heatsink is assembled around the drive, there still may be a gap. The extra thermal pad makes up that gap, so full contact can be made. If you have a dual sided drive, you wont need the extra pad.)PLEASE READ- Things you should know AND purchase along with this heat sink:1.) As stated above, the M.2 mounting screw supplied is too long. After installation, the drive was pretty loose. (I remedied this by installing a small silicone washer I made from a spare part I had lying around to take up the slack.)Just type "M.2 mounting kit" in the Amazon search bar and it will show you various kits with plastic washers. You will only need one or two washers, so just order the cheapest kit and problem solved. (~$5.00)2.) BE AWARE that the heat sink can interfere with the surface mount components on your MoBo. I did a few test fits and noticed the bottom of the heat sink was showing very faint ware marks from a resistor it was just barely touching. (I temporarily remedied this by putting some Scotch Tape on the Mobo over the resistor to prevent a potential short, but I don't recommend it for long term.)Just type "Kapton Tape" in the Amazon search bar. Kapton Tape is heat resistant, electrically insulated and is used all over the tech industry. It will stand up to the heat over time. (~$5.00 also.)Other than that, I hope those two pieces of important info helps you out. I really like this Sabrent Heatsink and I'm happy with it. Just purchase the Kapton Tape and an M.2 mounting kit with washers and you will be set.

Added the Sabrent heatsink to a new Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe m.2 2TB drive on my ASUS ROG Crosshair VII Hero motherboard. Very high quality craftsmanship, looks great and has doesn’t feel cheap. Very easy to install.Performance - I ran benchmarks prior to installing and then after, the m.2 drive saw a decrease of 5* C (average). This is a 13% decrease in temp for the Samsung NVMe m.2 drive, no other changes made to the PC’s airflow. Very please with the improved cooling.As others mentioned, depending on PCIe slots, it can be a tight fit. It barely cleared the latches for the last slot on my mobo. The m.2 slot on the ASUS CH7 is directly underneath the graphic card as well. While I had clearance, a thicker GPU might cause issues. Lastly, since my mobo has the m.2 underneath the GPU, I can’t visually see the new heatsink. That’s due to layout of the ASUS mobo, not the heatsink. Not a big deal, I know it’s working due to my test pulls.

I needed this for my project build because the SSD was starting to overheat and would actually throttle performance on games where it wouldn't before. After installing this, my computer seems happy enough to run games again. It might not seem like it makes a difference but it DOES