ASRock to Launch Hyper Quad M.2 PCIe 4.0 Expansion Card

[InVasMani]

I'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.

 

[kapone32]

I'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.
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You could have the bare card without the heatsink. The only concern would be spacing for your other PCIe slots. Yes a QUAD M2 card is insane and I promise it will be your favourite drive too. Yes using one of the free M2 slots is great because it also Activates (Before 2004) the Windows 10 licence on the board and NVME drive.

 

[thesmokingman]

I'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.

nah, what you do is remove the shroud from the heatsink and slap a fan on it. Here's mine before the fan is mounted.

 

[MRFS]

We recently installed a Highpoint SSD7103 in a PCIe 3.0 x16 slot available in a refurbished HP Z220 entry-level workstation.
The twin Vantec PCI slot fan was installed right next to that SSD7103, and it works great: all 4 x Samsung M.2 stay very cool:
I was quite astounded to see 11,697.72 Megabytes per second Sequential READs with CDM:

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CDM screen shots:

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