Tuesday, March 7th 2023
Aftermarket PlayStation 5 M.2 SSD Cooler Taps into Airflow of the Console's Main Fan
German company GRAUGEAR, an aftermarket/OEM cooling solutions company, released an interesting M.2 SSD cooler for PlayStation 5, which taps into the airflow of the console's main intake fan. The G-PS5HS01-Cov cooler from GRAUGEAR is meant for bare M.2 NVMe SSDs. It consists of an aluminium monoblock heatsink with a single flat 7 mm copper heatpipe running underneath, making contact with hot components on the drive's topside, through silicone-based thermal pads. This heatpipe sneaks up to the intake fan vent of the PS5, with a copper-channel stack in its end, which dissipates some of the drive's heat to the airflow. The company claims that this design offers 50% better cooling compared to drives with heatsinks that maximize the space above the M.2 slot of the PS5, and can lower controller temperatures by 15-20°C, since it is essentially an active cooling solution. The cooler weighs 70 g. The company didn't reveal pricing or availability information.
33 Comments on Aftermarket PlayStation 5 M.2 SSD Cooler Taps into Airflow of the Console's Main Fan
Have any actually failed due to heat? PS5 or PC?
Makers wanted to further spin the same logic IMHO as CD's were the successors. At least tried... They could have have marketed CD's withstanding my first Ricoh 2x writer without melting :D
But hey... really slapping silly looking heatsinks on devices that utterly does not need it, as usually those places have no airflow anyways is a marketing trend that should be scolded as hard we can.
A thing that could be needed is a simple graphene sheet to even out and prevent hotspots, and that is it, I would agree with it. Most laptops use it and it works totally fine like that for years already... also being besides scorching components around 90C... and nobody bats an eye about it, hey some even can put 3 NVME drives besides in a laptop...
Hey where are heatsinks for my poor overheating laptop? Really mates?