A Massive Cooler For Those That Want It, And A PCIe 5.0 SSD Too
You don’t necessarily need to strap the Dark AirFlow I cooler onto TeamGroup’s 4TB T-Force Z540 NVMe SSD, but you can if you so desire. The T-Force Z540 is a 4TB drive using the Phison PS5026-E26-52 controller, a 4GB cache of LPDDR4-4266MHz RAM and Micron’s 232-Layer TLC NAND. The advertised sequentila speed of the drive is 11700 MB/s read, 9500 MB/s write and The Guru of 3D’s testing saw even faster performance in Crystal DiskMark. In most tests there was only two or three drives able to outperform the T-Force Z540 so the drive is well worth the investment.
The Dark AirFlow I cooler measures 75mm x 2407mm x 62.3mm (L, W, H) so you are not going to need some clearance around the your M.2 port to be able to make use of it. PCIe 5.0 drives do run hot, in this case the T-Force Z540 under a motherboard heatspreader hit 82C with a hotspot that was over 90C, which will definitely result in thermal throttling. With the Dark AirFlow I attached the drive never ran hotter than 51C, even after a 30 minute torture test, so it makes for a good pairing with any drive using the Phison E26 controller.
Behold the detailed results at Guru3D.
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