Thermalright HR-10 PRO Heatsink Prepared for Gen5 SSDs

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Thermalright has quietly updated its product page this week, and has rolled out another SSD cooler that looks quite familiar. The HR-10 2280 PRO M.2 SSD heatsink is now featured on their website, where it sits close to a similar looking model - the now standard HR-10 2280. This non-PRO version was revealed late last month as a step up from the older HR-09 SSD heatsink. The brand new HR-10 2280 PRO sports a key upgrade over its passively cooled older siblings - a 30 mm 12 V cooling PWM fan has been integrated into the middle of the fin stack's body. Thermalright's latest M.2 heatsink also fully prepared for and compatible with the next generation of SSDs - its revised design will accommodate Gen 5 solid-state drive standards.

The HR-10 Pro is consists of four 5 mm-thick nickel-plated copper heatpipes that make contact with a user appointed M.2-2280 SSD, over a mirror-finish nickel-plated copper base-plate. The heatpipes loop through a dense aluminium fin-stack with slats designed to maximize surface area for highly effective heat dissipation. A die-cast metal top-plate with company branding completes the package. The HR-10 PRO weighs in at 95 g (so 10 g more than the standard HR-10). The heatsink measures 23.7 mm x 90.3 mm x 43.8 mm (WxDxH). Thermalright has not revealed any pricing or stock availability at the time of writing.



Heatsink specifications:
Dimension：L90.3 mm x W23.7 mm x H43.8 mm
Weight：95 g
Heat pipes：5 mm heatpipe x 4 units
Warranty：1 years

Fan specifications：
Dimension：L30 mm x W30 mm x H10 mm
Rated Speed：3500-6500 RPM±10% (MAX)
Rated voltage：12 V DC
Ampere：0.05 A
Connector：4 Pin (PWM Fan connector)



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[Space Lynx]

@freeagent

*grabs popcorn and smiles*

 

[Nordic]

It is so cute. Like baby shoes.

 

[cbb]

another fan? no. A teeny tiny fan? oh heck no.
The same company makes a fanless 9 PRO that would be worth testing vs conventional (more reasonable?) ssd heatsinks.

While I don't think I, personally, need every last bit off ssd speed, I'd be curious to see objective info on how much this helps (my impression is even the mundane ones can help a fair bit, but...mostly vs super intense loads I'm unlikely to encounter in my use cases? maybe?). Benchmarking and content creation prolly really push the thermal envelope. My games? prolly not. My browsing? def not. My open office? hah, no.

 

[Makaveli]

And the most important piece of information the vendor didn't provide.

what is the decibel level of this little fan?

 

[CosmicWanderer]

I can hear the high-pitched whine of that tiny fan all the way from over here.

Can't wait to be done with the first iteration of Gen 5 drivers. Hopefully the next ones will be faster and won't need active cooling courtesy of more efficient manufacturing nodes.

 

[freeagent]

@freeagent

*grabs popcorn and smiles*

I’m good

 

[LabRat 891]

Can't wait for crafty enthusiasts to start mounting these Gen5 SSD coolers to old kit.

 

[WorringlyIndifferent]

I am NOT adding another tiny fan to a PC again, ever. Learned my lesson with the fans on whichever AMD chipset it was that required fans. Whiny, annoying, nonsense. I think it was the X570 chipsets?

I will never do that again. If something requires a 40mm (or whatever tiny size) again, I simply won't use it.

 

[Makaveli]

I am NOT adding another tiny fan to a PC again, ever. Learned my lesson with the fans on whichever AMD chipset it was that required fans. Whiny, annoying, nonsense. I think it was the X570 chipsets?

I will never do that again. If something requires a 40mm (or whatever tiny size) again, I simply won't use it.

lol i've yet to hear the fan on my X570 board and its been 4 years now.

 

[bobbybluz]

Needz curb feelerz...

 

[Ferrum Master]

lol i've yet to hear the fan on my X570 board and its been 4 years now.

It is fine as long you don't populate second nvme slot and SATA ports. I did that and then mine started to go past 60C with 3000RPM. My shitsus has a very very thought out PCH cooling design...

I've slapped a waterblock on it.

So no whiny small fans...

PCIE GEN5 SSDs look like a silly joke so far. There are absolutely no need for such fast linear write speeds. ZERO. Where it matters they don't develop, because it is expensive.

 

[ymdhis]

When Noctua starts selling m.2 compatibility brackets for their CPU coolers, then we'll be talking.

 

[Dirt Chip]

Next up: Water-cool your Realtek onboard sound chip for maximum preformance, gamer!

Those extravagant useless coolers are a good mirror for the futilely of the 'gaming' fashion nowdays.

 

[Psychoholic]

do these PCIE Gen 5 SSD's really need active cooling?
Seems like alot when they don't even beat GEN4 drives in the main thing you actually FEEL in daily use (4K Random)

Well, maybe some do get a little better performance in 4k Random, but its negligible

 

[Makaveli]

It is fine as long you don't populate second nvme slot and SATA ports. I did that and then mine started to go past 60C with 3000RPM. My shitsus has a very very thought out PCH cooling design...

I've slapped a waterblock on it.

So no whiny small fans...

PCIE GEN5 SSDs look like a silly joke so far. There are absolutely no need for such fast linear write speeds. ZERO. Where it matters they don't develop, because it is expensive.

I don't have my 2nd NVME slot in use but my Sata are used and the primary NVME slot.

And my chipset normally sits at 60-62c and still can't hear it. So I think also depends on the motherboard one is using.

 

[unwind-protect]

Still no waterblocks for SSDs?

 

[Makaveli]

Still no waterblocks for SSDs?

They have them for some PCIe 4.0 drives but it seems its more needed for the 5.0 drives.

https://www.corsair.com/ca/en/Categories/Products/Custom-Cooling/Accessories/Hydro-X-Series-XM2-M-2-SSD-Water-Block-%282280%29/p/CX-9029002-WW

 

[chowow]

okay ridiculous so Gen 4 and Gen 5 equals heat I think I'll stick with gen3 thank you maybe two to three seconds slower big deal

 

[Makaveli]

okay ridiculous so Gen 4 and Gen 5 equals heat I think I'll stick with gen3 thank you maybe two to three seconds slower big deal

Hmm no Gen 4 SSD's run cool and don't require waterblocks. And are not first gen products.

 

[Tomgang]

Those complaining about the little fan. I agree it can be annoying.

However no one says you have to run it at full speed. Just lock it at it lowest rpm or that rpm you can live with or you can just not plug it in. Problem solved.

This cooler has PWM fan. Connect it to motherboard 4 pin fan connector and go to bios and make a fan curve to your liking. It's not that hard to get a solution to this possible little noisy fan.

 

[natr0n]

Thats nice. Like the old days of vrm cooling. Whoever was at thermalright woke up from a 20 year nap.

 

[caroline!]

Ohh VRM cooling that was nice, and heatsinks from them looked really good. Nowadays mobos come with an useless chunk of metal on top of the VRMs that's almost the same as having no heatsink at all, and it looks horrible. But the old Thermalright heatsinks looked great, they had unplated unpainted copper ones iirc, copper looking builds were sick imo, old MSI and Gigabyte mobos had copper northbridge heatsinks too, I think ABIT had them as well but I'm not sure.

30mm fans are noisy. And if you lower the speed then they're pretty useless, blades are so small blowing air out of your mouth would cool down the heatsink faster.

 

[maxfly]

4 heatpipes, 95 grams and a pwm fan?! That is killer.

Edit- if it was black it would sell like hotcakes!

 

[AsRock]

Shame they don't get in to more graphic card coolers again, although fully understand why they don't these days.

As for the fan on this thing i be able to disable it with my case.