First Consumer PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD Tested, Makes A Lot Of Fan Noise
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TheDeeGee
I guess it wasn't possible to go 3-Pin because that little monster fan draws too much amps.

Glottiz
So industry is heading back to noisy storage with moving parts? What a fail.

Kaarme

mbk1969
21,000 rpm fan from Sauron?!!

PPC

GarrettL
Why do I need 5.0 NVMe?

mackintosh
If you work with large files - every bit helps, but for home use? You don't. Not yet, anyway.

Silva
Faster is better, but noisier isn't.
For the average consumer I recommend a good passively cooled PCIe 4.0 NVMe drive.
The only advantage of these high speed drives is if you work with 8k video files or something of the sort.

H83

mackintosh
Well, it only made sense after they released a phone with a 20000 rpm fan.

TLD LARS
I nominate this cooler as the worst cooler of 2023.
Make the fan 2-3mm bigger to fill out the heatsink atleast, that would double the fan blade size and the RPM can then be halved.
The heatsink itself looks like a passive design, with a fan mounted on it.
A proper designed thin finned heatsink would be twice as good, so the fan RPM could be halved again.

Kaleid
Should not have stopped developing SATA

Ricepudding

Agonist
There is literally space for 3 of those fans, and could be way quieter but this is way step backwards.

Software Dev Expert

RealNC

GarrettL
I just don't see a 5.0 NVMe in my future due to lack of need for the speed for one thing. But there is no way that little itty bitty fans are going in my pc build. Small fans, if need be...but itty bitty teeny tiny? Nooooooooooo...............