Can a budget M.2 heatsink save a hot SSD? ft. Jonsbo M.2 Heatsink

I checked if the Jonsbo M.2 Heatsink was really necessary to cool down my primary storage drive - Samsung EVO 970 Plus, which consistently has pretty hot thermals.

0:00 Hot & Cold SSDs
0:20 The problem
1:10 The solution
1:48 Installing the M.2 heatsink
2:26 Testing the new heatsink
3:27 Sigh

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[Zonker]

Was hoping one would work, but still enjoyed the video... like your humor. Hope the channel goes well.

[rodrigomendes]

Would be amazing if you have tested without any heatsink since lot of motherboards don't have it or have only 1 heatsink but 3 nvme entries.

[economicist]

1:32 Whoa you got instructions? I got only the manufacturer packaging in Chinese, which is why I'm here.

[Nickayz]

I have great results with the Jonsbo Heatsink with a 10-15 degree celsius drop. First of all, my M.2 came without any heatsink and the motherboard neither. I have a Samsung SSD that is one sided. For one sided SSDs you have to put a thick thermal pad at the bottom and a thick thermal pad at the top. Then you slightly squeeze it all together. If you can slide the heatsink easily in, there is obviously no good contact between the metal frame and the heatsink.

[freestar_cyan]

Nice I will definitely be sure to buy a 970 plus next time.

[GurpreetSingh-repw]

faced the same problem with my Evo 970 plus...finally realized its the controller that is always the hottest (not that hot! THAT hot!). But despite the high temps I am not using any heat-sync, still it works fine.

[goodfractalspoker]

Thank you for this video going to keep my 970 evo plus without one and just not use it as a server should be fine!

[RealButcher]

Thanks man, got that same (about the same: X570-PRO) motherboard and the M.2 is off the motherboard and waiting to start a cooling solution.
This is that lower slot. On the upper slot I have an M.2 2T with it's own heatsink. Do not know yet how that works out.

[edmellogan]

Thanks for the review. I'm trying to choose a heatsink right now and was strongly considering the Jonsbo. From the research I've done, I've gotten mixed reviews on all the heatsinks. Some people seem to have good luck with them while others notice little if any difference in temperature change. This makes me wonder if the performance of a heatsink is effected dependent on its location on the motherboard. As one commentator suggested, having an m.2 too close to a graphics card could be a problem. You might be fighting an uphill battle against heat saturation in that circumstance. Little one can do about that, though, short of either switching to a different motherboard or placing the graphics card in a different slot or mounting it vertically.

I just can't see any sense in spending a ton of money on a heatsink system for my nvme's. I'm certainly not going to invest in water cooling for those, especially since I have three on my motherboard. The more I read, the more I'm convinced to just get some cheap, simple heatsinks and experiment with the thermal pads. One interesting fact I've learned is that while the heat in the controller needs to be controlled, the other chips actually need to stay warm or they may degrade. So here you have a situation where one end of your SSD needs to be cooled, while the other end... Not so much. So I was thinking about mounting thermally conductive pads on my controllers and thermally insulated pads on the NAND and DRAM chips. From what I've learned; cooling down the controller is the key. I'll make sure all the pads are level by using different thicknesses before I mount the heatsink. I doubt this will make a difference in cooling, but may help with longevity.

There does seem to be a controversy at the moment over whether heatsink are even necessary on nvme's, but I feel something is better than nothing, and I intend to experiment a bit.

[doominance]

It also looks good aesthetically especially you don't have a heatsink for nvme

[teddym]

This is why I like the SSD with already integrated heatsink like Corsair MP600 pro. :)

[lawrencecalvo]

You place the thermal pad wrong it should be 0.5mm thermal pad on the first 31mm of the 970 evo starting after the screw port and 1mm thermal on the second half (37mm)of the 970evo at thr front of the 970evo

[hphp]

The manufacturer sticker on the drive should be the culprit. That might be acting as an insulator. They should stop putting labels on the chip side for 2 reasons. 1) maybe it acts as an insulator and 2) the pad could destroy the serial number and other details on the label over time and hence void the warranty.

And by the way, as pad thickness increases the thermal conductivity decreases. A 0.5mm pad conducts more heat than 2mm pad, and that's why they ask to put thinner on the heatsink. 👍

[sbuniversity]

The 1mm Copper heatsinks are a lot better than the aluminum ones.

[reggiiee]

I’ve got the same board, and SSD I have mine in the slot above the GPU. It’s not running hot, unless the windows provided tempts are wrong. Also did you solve your issue?
And I have two 120mm fans pulling cold air into the case

[SianaGearz]

Haha really sharp writing and narration, very good.

Why thin pad UNDER the SSD? You need to consider the material stackup of the PCB and the semiconductor ICs. The PCB has copper inner layers (ground pour, voltage pours) which are connected to each chip on dozens of pads, it's a very good thermal and electrical connection, directly to the semiconductor, with the semiconductor die being is at the very bottom of the IC package. Then the semiconductor is packaged on top into a layer of carbon-black epoxy which has shit thermal conductivity. So most of the cooling is going to be happening down through the PCB. So there's actual logic to this. In fact they should probably build the SSDs backwards i feel, with the chips facing the mainboard and with all the cooling happening on the backside.

Should it make a difference? For real, no, probably not. None of this. It's just all a consistently hot blob of hotness that you can just cool wherever you please.

[sagarn]

Worked on Crucial P3 its not almost 10°c cooler

[carlucioleite]

Ambient temperature 31 degrees. As a brazilian I feel you, bro.

[TechRodent]

Maybe you don't have good airflow around that area, it after all also looks like it sits right below your graphics card, and something like a 3080/ 3080 Ti is known to REALLY kick out some super heat.

try shifting the M.2 slot elsewhere?

[condor.]

I don't know why Samsung's M.2s doesn't have integrated heat sinks, since they normally keep temps at least 10º C below the recommended limit by Samsung of 70º C under heavy load, and I read a LOT of comments of people getting pretty high temps, like above 60º C even idle. Maybe they do that to make it cheaper, but it sucks real bad