Testing Thermal Grizzly NVMe M.2 SSD Cooler - 2 Thermal Pads on WD Black SN850 

Great to see all your testing, now with NVMe drives being so commonplace and pushing the thermal cooling limits.

Another very good video

yay. i ordered the ek m2 cooler and bought 0.5mm and 1mm grizzly heatpads for it. i was a little worried that I maybe bought the wrong size heat pads, but i think it will be okay now because the grizzly cooler looks just like the ek m2 cooler ^_^

People normally don't read the comments through to get the info they want. So far this heatsink works well enough in gaming sessions with enough airflow in a PC. Same for the PS5. The heat shown here normally doesn't get to the saturation limit in normal every day use.

Wow, what an interesting series, this is so applicable to the latest NVMe drives hitting the market, and using PCI 4.0, and as you say the new PCI 5.0 is coming, and these increased data rates are going to increase the need for greater cooling.... It may turn out to be interesting to see how manufacturers deal with this engineering challenge. Let me throw in my experience with owning a 2 TB, Samsung 980 Pro, and an Asus Z590-E motherboard with PCI 4.0 M.2 slots (2) and (2) PCI 3.0 M.2 Slots... and an intel i7-11700k processor, using the Standard Asus motherboard heat sink that came with the motherboard, and running Crystal disk Mark in various combinations of stress, the Worst that was reported by CPUID HWMonitor was 47°C, (116 degrees Fahrenheit) your testing is showing significantly higher temperatures, With all these heat sinks from various vendors, and in my personal opinion any memory chip, running over 130°F (54° C) for extended periods of time... Should be a cause of concern... From my life's experience being in electronics. I wonder if, having an open test-bed... Affects things, Meaning No air Flow removing dissipated heat, from the heat sinks.... But, because of your consistent test method on the same machine, All these numbers are still relevant because the consistency of the test, and the continued test platform,( Passive Cooling ? ) we can derive the heat dissipation performance of each heat sink regardless of the potential for greater airflow being used in a case with good ventilation. I absolutely love the testing you are so, diligently and carefully doing, stay focused and keep us informed on slight deviations that arrived as you test these various manufacturers products. Again, I may have more to say in the future.... Great series... So much information for those who can absorb it in each one of these videos.

Haha. You did it! Thanks for testing. Also expected better results with Thermal Grizzly heatsink. I dunno, maybe if aluminum is a little thicker, maybe results would be better. But heatsink is really small, thin, whatever.

Hey Gill, have you seen the card from Highpoint that can do eight NVMe drives? That would be interesting to try out. I think it uses a lane switch chip.

I ordered the Corsair M.2 water block from Titan Rig $40 with a coupon, tax and snail shipping. It looks good for a mobo mounted GEN4 C: boot drive. Boot and run on a new Sabrent GEN4 6933/6880 drive and use my Quad card in a raido with my old Sabrent 5000/4400 GEN4 drives for storage. Should be easy to add to a cpu open loop cooler. Two fitting and a little tubing is all you'll need.

thank you for the video ! i expected more given the hype of the grizzly , but after looking closely at minute 19:09 the way they designed the clips is not smart , since you have a soft material(thermal pad) in between , it gets compressed only on the sides, while being loose in the middle , more even pressure would definitely make it better , but nothing is perfect.

Does removing thermal pad after months removes serial no. and other information written on it? I am asking because information is used for claiming warranty.

Please do a video if it’s ok to replace the stock thermal pads in video cards with high end ones.

IDK why for sure but some M.2 mounts are different. On Asus the mobo M.2 socket was higher than the DIMM2 or quad card mounts. The screw mount on the other end was 2.5 mm stand off on the DIMM.2 and quad card but on the mother board the standoffs were 4.5mm. I could see more gap between the NVMe and the surface underneath on the mobo. Out of the box there were two different sets of standoffs. Be careful if you buy replacements to get the right height. IDK, I don't have any dual sided 4TB drives to check a lower mount thermal pad clearance. IDK if different brands or newer TR boards are any different. Out of the box I mounted all the standoffs and screws to the boards and AICs at the 80mm slot to keep the correct height on the correct NVMe mount.

I have the WD sn750 in my laptop and even with the heatsink and the thermal pad that comes with it the drive still gets hella hot. Could you recommend a better heatsink that might work better to cool it down.

I ordered the WD sn850 2tb ssd and this heatsink for my PS5 and I'm wondering if that combo will work.

What thermal pad has enaugh sticktivity to where it can hold a 1cm by 1cm heatsink?

Well at least now I have an idea of what's going on inside my PlayStation, I'm using the 980 Pro. But I'm assuming the temperatures are real close, unless a wd-black runs a little bit hotter.

what i was surprised by, is that if you use a newer m2 drive (pci-4) on a older board (pci-3), the m2 drive runs 10 degrees cooler than if you used a pci-3 m2 drive :o

Hey Builder Bob! Thanks for the info! Wanted to ask about something I can’t seem to find any answers on. WD SN850x 1TB inside an Acasis NVMe 40Gbps enclosure, running out Thunderbolt to my Mac Mini . There was some concern about the 1mm thermal pad not touching the metal seal upon installation and how I could cook an egg on this thing after only a few minutes. Drive temps are high and TB port temps are in the mid 90s 😳 (not sure if that’s a big deal) should I be concerned? Or let her roast?

Hi! May I ask if ever I’m going to replace the thermal pads in my gpu, is it ok if I go with a thicker pads? (Ex. If pads are 2mm, I’ll go with 3mm). Will this affect with heat dissipation? Thank you.

Hey there. Do you know a way to get it off again? The pads are really sticky.

Can this cooler apply on laptop?

I woke up now from a coma-nap. I'm 4h too late. I'm sorry not being here live.

What would u recommend on the ps5 with a heat sink

Is this a good heatsink for the Playstation 5?

Thermal Grizzly M.2 SSD Cooler is only compatible with single sided SSDs according to the specs.

warum werd ich nur gelöscht ich sag doch nur die warheit was ist loss mit joutube

So over priced ... only worth $2