Four intriguing AliExpress-sourced SSD cooling products have been put under scrutiny by overclocking pro Der8auer. Just by glancing at some of these things, many may feel doubtful about their practical use. However, it is good to get product cynicism validated by Der8auer, and also find out that some of the SSD cooling products weren’t too bad. Spoiler: some were bad, but none were great.
The test platform used to check out the quartet of AliExpress SSD coolers used a Crucial T700 PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD (plugged in a Gen4 slot). Der8auer revealed that this SSD was happy to deliver 7 GB/s read and write speeds when sufficiently cooled. He provided some other baselines, in terms of thermals. For example, he provided read/write test thermal readings using the Asus Maximus Z790 Hero heatsink in place, and tested the system with no heatsink at all.
