While there's definitely an argument to be made about RGB overload, there's no doubt that colored lights can make a component stand out, whether on the shelf or in your system. So it's no surprise that PNY is trying to appeal to the masses by giving you some aesthetic options with its latest XLR8 CS3150 PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD.
These sticks are cooled by two fans on both ends of the heatsink, and come in either black, white or an Epic-X RGB backlight version. The latter in particular looks like a tiny graphics card.
The drive is 39.8mm (1.56 inches) tall, which makes it a whole lot friendlier to other components in your case than the Nextorage NE5N. The drive is actually fairly compact, given it houses a backplate, two slices of the thermal pad with the drive in between, the heatspreader and, with its RGB variant, a shroud.
