Has SSD cooling gone too far? Are PCIe 5.0 speeds worth it? These are the questions to wrestle with as you stare down an SSD with its own dedicated liquid cooler.
The drive in question is MSI's Spatium M580 PCIe 5.0 NVMe M.2 2TB Frozr Liquid, which comes with its very own pint-sized water cooler, radiator, and blower fan. That's to help deal with the extra heat this PCIe 5.0 drive throws out when running up to 14,000MB/s read/12,000MB/s write—blisteringly quick, but at what cost?
