Wednesday, September 12th 2018
SilverStone ECM23 is an M.2 Riser+Heatsink Letting You Slot-in Your Drives Like Cartridges
The ECM23 from SilverStone is one of the more interesting M.2-PCIe SSD risers to come out in recent times. It looks like a game cartridge from 1980s, and slots into one of your PCI-Express x16 slots, which it then uses to wire out an M.2-2280 M-key slot with PCIe x4 wiring. The riser itself has x16 interface, but beyond x4, all the other lanes are blank, and only serve to add retention, since the riser doesn't feature an add-on card bracket to hold it in place. The main PCB has no logic of its own, other than link/activity LEDs for the four PCIe lanes.
It's more optimal to use drives with all their hot components on one side, since that side has access to the chunky ~40 g main heatsink. Heat from the other side is drawn from a copper mesh printed on the PCB, which supposedly conveys it to the back side, which has an aluminium back-plate, which bolts onto the main heatsink, sandwiching the PCB and drive in the middle. Measuring 105 mm (W) x 11 mm (H) x 44 mm (D), the ECM23 weighs 52 g (excluding the weight of your drive). The company didn't reveal pricing.
It's more optimal to use drives with all their hot components on one side, since that side has access to the chunky ~40 g main heatsink. Heat from the other side is drawn from a copper mesh printed on the PCB, which supposedly conveys it to the back side, which has an aluminium back-plate, which bolts onto the main heatsink, sandwiching the PCB and drive in the middle. Measuring 105 mm (W) x 11 mm (H) x 44 mm (D), the ECM23 weighs 52 g (excluding the weight of your drive). The company didn't reveal pricing.
24 Comments on SilverStone ECM23 is an M.2 Riser+Heatsink Letting You Slot-in Your Drives Like Cartridges
Having the cooling slots on the lower facing side in a normal layout doesn't make sense, but, that's just my opinion.
Any other direction is an exotic design and does not follow the standard (yes, even extensions).
www.ebay.com/itm/123232438579
Otherwise a company called JEYI make some grate ones i have the model: MX16 and VollyStar and they are working grate.
well in a normal fan setup ... sense does not matter :p in a passive setup... it does a bit more ;)well it already did exist and potentially cheaper (saw them on Aliexpress for quite a while), although i think the vast majority will think of that as an innovation from Silverstone and the one with the "better known" branding is superior and works better :laugh:Yes that, exactly (and they are even cheaper than on Ebay)
HOWEVER
Using one of these on your motherboard either means using PCIe 2.0 through the chipset, of cutting your GPU PCIe 3.0 connection to x8 instead of x16. Most high end motherboards include a separate connector with its own 3.0 x4 connection, separate from the GPU connection, and often have their own heatsinks already. And most systems only have 1 NVMe drive as a boot drive. What is the advantage of using a PCIe slot?
This would make more sense on lower end motherboards that might not have NVMe slots or dont have heatsinks for them, but those kinds of builds dont seem the type to spend the extra $$$ on NVMe.
the board under is also the same ... : a Silverstone logo and name instead of a big ROHS
well Silverstone have some good stuff aside (case mostly and also my own Raven RVP01 XXL mousemat ) ... so i will not complain if they fail on that one and put it at 32$ :laugh_
neveranottaproblemo :laugh:
This will be good for older motherboards. I used to use an adapter like this, but it didn't have a heatsink.