@momomo_us We shared a post on Twitter showing one of the most aggressive looking PS5 NVMe SSD coolers we’ve seen so far called the Graugear G-PS5HS01-Cov. The main selling point of this cooler is the copper heatsink that protrudes from his PS5’s NVMe housing for enhanced heat dissipation. A drive with this feature should be an interesting competitor to the best of his PS5 SSDs and aftermarket coolers like Sabrent’s M.2 NVMe PS5 heatsink that we reviewed last year.
The use of copper heat pipes is unique and not found in any other PS5 cooler today. The cooling system consists of two main parts, the main his housing and the external copper heat sink. The main housing uses an aluminum heatsink that makes direct contact with the NVMe drives. This heatsink is then connected to a copper heatpipe away from the drive and connected to a copper heatsink.
An important feature of a copper heatsink is its location. The heatpipes are routed to be placed right next to the PS5’s cooling fans, effectively giving the NVMe SSD its active cooling properties. This gives the drive more than enough cooling for all NVMe SSDs the PS5 supports.
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For context, one of the best PS5 SSD coolers we’ve tested so far is the Sabrent PS5 SSD heatsink, which keeps the Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus at an average of 61 degrees Celsius during write operations and 59 C on average during read operations. Passive cooling only.
As a result, Graugear’s cooling solution should blow Sabrent’s solution even colder. Hopefully we’ll get a chance to test this new cooler soon to see if its cooling power is as strong as expected. While helpful, it would be particularly interesting to test SSD performance, as overcooling NAND flash tends to degrade performance.
