I too laughed at this ridiculous SSD tower cooler and now I fear it might augur a super-heated future
From the looks of this new SSD tower cooler, I'm a little scared about just how toasty the new PCIe 5.0 SSDs are going to get once AMD's Zen 4(opens in new tab) and Intel's Raptor Lake(opens in new tab) platforms launch. If they need this sort of cooling we're going to have to think about where we stick our graphics cards and solid state drives in relation to each other.
This third-gen JiuShark SSD cooler(opens in new tab) might look like some April fool's jape, but holy hell, if this thing chills your drive as well as it promises—and next-gen drives really need serious cooling—then you might well be grateful to have another hunk of metal strapped to your motherboard.
Our sister site, Tom's Hardware(opens in new tab), dug up the SSD chip chiller via SI-129(opens in new tab) on Twitter, and at just $13 (by direct currency conversion) it looks like a bargain. The reported cooling performance means you can get a 31% and 38% reduction in temperature (on memory and controller chips respectively) from just having the heatsink itself installed. Strap a 60mm fan to it and you're talking about an even more drastic reduction in temps.
The Flash memory chips will then run 54% cooler and the memory controller's temperature drops by 57%. These are pretty spectacular numbers, and based on the Samsung 980 Pro, which is a modern PCIe 4.0 SSD.
Though obviously it's important to state that these are manufacturer-provided benchmarks and we can't guarantee that this is the sort of thermal performance you might be able to expect in the real world until we get our hands on one.
Look, I went into this laughing at the ridiculous idea of strapping a tower cooler to an SSD—haha, talk about overkill, thinks I—but those temperature deltas are
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