I'd like to hear what this fan sounds like in its upper RPM range.
My experience with NVMe drives are all PCIe 3.0. How hot do the 4.0 drives get? Is there something I don't know about PCIe 5.0 drives, cuz I think all the ones I've seen announced so far have active coolers. I slap passive coolers on PCIe 3.0 drives but I don't actually really think it's strictly necessary for them. But lately I've been seeing more and more SSDs announced with active cooling from the factory, and now we're seeing 3rd-party active coolers hitting the market in bigger numbers than the scant few that existed a few years ago. Is active cooling for M.2 SSDs gonna become the new norm? I really don't know how hot the newer faster drives get these days. And correct me if I am wrong, but I think when SSDs overheat they tend to throttle the writes but not the reads? And it tends to be the controllers that get warm right, not the NAND? What about the DRAM on the drives (for those that have such)?