InVasManiI'm curious if the spacing is adequate to skip AsRock's cooler and use four of these Sabrent M.2 2280 SSD Rocket Heatsink (SB-HTSK) coolers instead. Using four Sabrent NVMe M.2 PCIe 4.0 drives with the heatsinks and 140mm Noctua fan zip tied thru the heatpipe loops would be pretty slick, cool, and quiet. Really digging that M.2 cooler design by Sabrent looks like it works pretty well and trivial to attatch a fan to it. You could also get one of those PCIE slot fans to blow on them from below as well they make adapters to make your own with a bracket and some linking hardware to attach a few 120mm or 140mm fans together in that sort of way pretty cheaply. The Hyper Quad would be great for software raid just use it for program storage and have a separate storage device for the OS which could be mechanical, SSD, or even another M.2 device that you probably have on your board anyway.

InVasManiI'm curious if the spacing is adequate to skip AsRock's cooler and use four of these Sabrent M.2 2280 SSD Rocket Heatsink (SB-HTSK) coolers instead. Using four Sabrent NVMe M.2 PCIe 4.0 drives with the heatsinks and 140mm Noctua fan zip tied thru the heatpipe loops would be pretty slick, cool, and quiet. Really digging that M.2 cooler design by Sabrent looks like it works pretty well and trivial to attatch a fan to it. You could also get one of those PCIE slot fans to blow on them from below as well they make adapters to make your own with a bracket and some linking hardware to attach a few 120mm or 140mm fans together in that sort of way pretty cheaply. The Hyper Quad would be great for software raid just use it for program storage and have a separate storage device for the OS which could be mechanical, SSD, or even another M.2 device that you probably have on your board anyway.