The MSI Spatium M570 Pro Frozr Comes With A Comically Huge Heatsink

The MSI Spatium M570 Pro Frozr Comes With A Comically Huge Heatsink

When it comes to managing the heat, PCIe 5.0 SSDs are the finicky stuff to deal with. Given the high power draw of the controllers of these SSDs, manufacturers often resort to heatsinks, and in extreme cases, active air cooling or even water cooling. But having a fan attached is a reliability problem – they often wear out and break after years of usage.

Enter MSI’s solution: the Spatium M570 Pro Frozr comes with a heatsink so huge, you can most likely strap a RAM cooler fan onto it, with some zip ties involved. Below this 72mm tall passive heatsink sits a Phison E26 PCIe 5.0 controller capable of delivering up to 12.4GB/s sequential read and 11.8GB/s sequential write speeds, while consuming a peak power of 11.5 watts. (For reference, your typical smartphone usually runs between 5-10 watts, depending on the chip.)

The model is available in three storage variants, starting from 1TB, with 2TB and 4TB available as well. These drives are given a healthy amount of LPDDR4 DRAM, with 2GB for the 1TB, 4GB for the 2TB, and finally 8GB of DRAM available for the 4TB model. Obviously, the star of the show is the heatsink big enough to fit a fan as CPU coolers do – the company says the heatsink is capable of “temperature reduction of up to 20°C,” thanks to a trio of heatpipes guiding the heat towards the top side of the heatsink, where the case airflow can carry some of that heat away.

The company hasn’t specified the local availability and pricing, but expect these drives to cost quite a bit, as with other PCIe 5.0 SSDs currently on the market.

Pokdepinion: The SSD surely can support all that weight sitting sideways… right?