MSI Shows Off Spatium M570 PRO Flagship SSD with FROZR and FROZR+ Cooling Solutions

[btarunr]

A recurring trend at Computex has been to market flagship Gen 5 NVMe SSDs and the cooling solutions required for them to reach their potential, as separate products. MSI showed off its flagship Spatium M570 PRO Gen 5 NVMe SSD that's capable of sequential transfer speeds as high as 14 GB/s. The company demoed a single drive posting 14520 MB/s reads and 12409 MB/s writes on CDM, when paired with its FROZR+ active fan-heatsink. An add-on card with two M.2 Gen 5 slots, and two of these M570 PRO drives in RAID with FROZR passive heatsinks, posts 22024 MB/s reads with 23130 MB/s writes as measured by CDM.

The Spatium FROZR+ cooling solution uses an extruded aluminium monoblock heatsink to which a C-shaped heatpipe spreads heat drawn from the drive. This heatsink is ventilated by what looks like a 40 mm version of MSI's TorX 5.0 fan with a webbed impeller that's designed to guide all of its airflow axially. MSI claims that the FROZR+ cooler reduces controller temperatures by up to 30°C. The Spatium FROZR is a passive cooling solution that uses an aluminium fin-stack heatsink to which heat drawn from the SSD is fed by two 6 mm heatpipes. MSI claims this thing can lower controller temperatures by up to 20°C. Look at the sizes of cooling solutions for Gen 5 NVMe SSDs in general (across brands), we wonder why AIC SSDs with VGA-grade cooling solutions aren't making a comeback.



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[Chaitanya]

Passive heatsink looks decent and should be a better option over one with fan.

 

[Minus Infinity]

We have now reached peak stupidity.

 

[eidairaman1]

Passive heatsink looks decent and should be a better option over one with fan.

Might as well have a pcie ssd card with a hsf.

 

[thesmokingman]

Lmao @ that heatsink.

 

[TumbleGeorge]

Random read small files 80MB/s or slower than good M.2 to PCIe 4.0 devices. Good work MSI, good work Phison.

 

[ixi]

Those are not rookie numbers, nice.

Those are not rookie numbers except Q1T1. Nice.

 

[Asni]

Are they really using HwMonitor in 2023? As BS as their software raid 0.

 

[Bwaze]

Wow, an 80 MB/s random 4K Q1T1 read! This will load Widows, software, games just as quick as any SATA 3 drive, but with added complexity and heat for zero gain...

 

[TumbleGeorge]

Wow, an 80 MB/s random 4K Q1T1 read! This will load Widows, software, games just as quick as any SATA 3 drive, but with added complexity and heat for zero gain...

I don't know why, but I feel like when it comes to random reading small files, most or all SSD controller manufacturers are as backward as if they were still living in 2003. Am I right or wrong?

 

[5 o'clock Charlie]

Any reason why the add-on card would require a pcie 6 pin? I did not know pcie gen5 m.2 ssd drives require that much power, unless this is an engineering sample?

 

[Asni]

Any reason why the add-on card would require a pcie 6 pin? I did not know pcie gen5 m.2 ssd drives require that much power, unless this is an engineering sample?

Only graphic cards can draw up to 75w through the pci-ex connector.
Add-in cards are usually limited to 25w which is borderline for this application.

 

[ToxicTaZ]

MSI Spatium M570 PRO 4TB FROZR+ in PCIe 5.0 Lighting Port on the MSI MEG Z790 ACE MAX motherboard with WiFi 7 is what I'm waiting for!

Drop in an record breaking 14900KS makes a great upgrade to my old 9900KS.

Cheers