Radiateur Ekwb EK-M.2 Pour SSD M.2 2280 (Bleu)

I like the look of this heatsink and it only takes a minute or two to assemble and includes a diagram on how to do it. The thermal pads aren't too sticky and you can readjust them and or swap it to another m.2 SSD later on. It seems to keep it about 10 C cooler. The case fans seem to blow enough air across it too. I have seen some m.2 heatsinks with a fan built in and that would be overkill. I'd recommend this and I like how they offer a lot of colors.

Purchased two of these to go on my primary NVME drive, and the second to go on a sort of "dummy" drive for decorative purposes. They install pretty easily overall, and look great. One thing I was afraid of was a supposed bowing of the m.2 drive. Unless you're trying to force this to fit a dual side m.2 drive, you shouldn't have this issue. Another issue that is pretty easily avoidable is scratching off the anodized coating. This usually will occur during installation of the retaining clips. As long as you have everything lined up when you install the clips, you shouldn't see any scratches. If you're going to swap these heatsinks to different drives, it's pretty easy to do. Just take the m.2 heatsink sandwich, place it on a hard surface, gently press down on the heatsink, then use the backside of a pen, or other plastic bit to push the side of the clip off. Fairly easy to work with, and looks good. Will buy again for future builds.

I don't write reviews often. This is a mixed bag. I have an ssd with a sticker on top and a very thin copper plate & sticker on the bottom (960 Pro 1TB) that hit 76 before this heatsink.Yes it will drop temperatures down to 60 under load for 'drive temperature 2' in HWiNFO64/32. Memory or drive temperature 1 never reached above 50 w/o the heatsink anyway.I have a small 20x20x40 mm no tuba fan pointed at this drive in my case. It sits on my graphics card without a mount (the fan, ssd is mounted to motherboard).I didn't take my stickers off. Your mileage will get better without stickers for sure.With stickers on (I didn't try with them off) this was a b✺ to get on. Clip orientation matters and I have no clue how to convey that other than the clips, looked at from an angle as if they're cookie cutters, have uneven legs. The longer leg is designed to sit in the wider part of the heatsink groove. (With the heatsink on a table with the logo towards you and screw cut-out away from you, I think it's the left side).Please don't break your ssd. Put the whole assembly on a table and then shove the clips on carefully (to not rip off components on the edge of your ssd).And yes, the thermal pad has plastic on both sides that needs to come off before you apply it to anything. Try not to touch it much. It's not very sticky so it slides around but that's normal.I gained maybe 250-300 MB/s read seq Q32T1 in CrystalDiskMark 6.0.2x64 -- the only metric I really care about apart from temperature.Perf after heatsink: r/w, MB/s, 8 runs per test, 16GiB transfers:SeqQ32T1: 3295.4, 2069.44KiB Q8T8: 1663.5, 1467.84KiB Q32T1: 323.9, 227.34KiB Q121: 47.58, 121.9Build quality is alright. So so. Materials are just fine for what they are. But instructions are severely lacking. Does what it needs to.

Clamps make a super tight fit with the WD 1TB NVME and note that the clamp goes a specific direction. I goofed and mine are opposite but it was so hard to get the clamp on that I left it that way. Just get one side of the clamp on and push from the bottom the other side until it clicks. Careful not to destroy your SSD in the meantime. Lol.My motherboard only has one M.2 slot between the GPU and CPU, a hot area to begin with. The clamp scare and hassle is well worth it and it looks sexy on the motherboard. I'm getting 8C lower temps at idle. I didn't think it would be that effective.

Totally unnecessary for my computer, but it looks sick and it's building towards my blue beast. Fits well, install was fairly easy. Will order another when the time is right. Does fit under my GPU, but just barely so measure!

I had read where these don't work right, and a year later as I was building my new PC, I found out they were right. The clips and thermal tape don't work!!! Don't buy unless you want to go looking for clips that fly, and really trying hard not to snap a $150 drive in pieces...

It is working well. It fitted the Maximus X Code on the external m.2 slot (M.2_2 in per the manual) with no issues. Just make sure to remove the heatsink protecting the M.2_1 slot (per manual) first so it is easier to install. The heatsink did not come with the m.2 SSD screw, in case you ask. It did not take me 15 minutes to place it in (of course, because I had to figure out taking the heatsink of the other m.2 SSD first).

Looks like a great product, easy to install and made very well. The only downfall is that I got this for my rog laptop and it's too thick to put the back panel on. I will most likely save this for another build though.