ElecGear PS5 NVMe SSD Heatsink, EL-P5C Heat Pipe + Solid Aluminum Cooler for PlayStation 5 Internal PCIe M.2 NVMe 4.0 Gen4 Memory, Re-Designed SSD Mounting Post Kit - (Not for Slim/Pro)

Keeps the SSD Cool!I have a bunch of weeb games on it, play all day no with no issues.It's been a few months so far, still no problems or overheating issues.

This heatsink by nElecGear is fantastic. It is easily the best heatsink available for the PS5 Expanded SSD port. It typically runs 6-8°C cooler than the Sabrent (at system start, 8-16° C cooler in normal operation) and 16-20°C cooler than an SSD with a low rise heatsink and 28-25°C cooler than a heat spreader plate that some SSDs come with. This comes with 2 different thermal pads and is more than enough to cover an entire 2280 M.2 NVME SSD and it also comes with one sided sticky pad to go under the SSD to offer mid card support to prevent swaying or hear warping.Construction:Many state in comments that they removed the copper heat pipe or the heat pipe is aluminum or silver. I can state that this is not correct. THE HEAT PIPE IS COPPER. The heat pipe is copper with a nickel coating which helps the transfer of heat. Nickel looks silver or like aluminum foil... However, you can scratch the nickel off the end of the pipe to expose the copper. THE HEAT PIPE IS COPPER.The performance of the heatsink is well beyond any other heatsink on the market for the PS5. The cost I paid is $29.98 +tax. Value for the money is worth it considering that the SSD will never get above 30° C in the PS5. Are there cheaper solutions, sure.. Sabrent is $20, but it runs at startup 8° C hotter and can get up to 20° C hotter than the ElecGear during operation. Could the ElecGear P5 SSD be cheaper, well they could come down to like $25-$26, but given the cost of copper, the design of the slotted cooling that takes full advantage of the PS5 fan, the high quality thermal pads, the extra SSD mounting screw for SSDs that have different thickness boards, keeping the SSD cooler than any other heatsink on the market at this time, to me it is well worth the $30 I paid for it.I'm using this in combination with the blade version of Adata XPG Gammix S70 2TB 2280 NVME M.2 Gen4x4 PCIe 4.0 SSD. I know a heat spreader comes with the blade, but it doesn't handle the heat as well as skipping the heat spreader and using a real heatsink, which is why I got this ElecGear P5 heatsink for the PS5.Can't recommend it enough.

I had an extra 1TB 980 Pro laying around from a recent PC build that I decided to drop into my brand new PS5 instead of leaving it collecting dust in my parts drawer. I saw this HeatSink featured on the Spawn Wave channel on YouTube and it looked substantial enough to handle the heat a 980 Pro can put out when running full tilt, so I decided to pick this up.Installation was relatively easy, although the clear washers included were difficult to keep on the end of the tiny lockdown screw. In fact, I lost the larger one into the innards of my PS5 when it slipped through that only slot in the bay it could have slipped through. Murphy's Law in action! Didn't matter since the SSD was secured just fine without that extra clear plastic washer.After installation was completed, and I swapped in my Black Side Plates, I setup my PS5 to run all of my PS5 games off my 980 Pro as opposed to the internal SSD because I had read several reviews stating that performance was slightly faster with the 980 Pro for loading game data than the PS5's internal drive. After playing through "Ratchet and Clank: A Rift Apart" twice using the Performance RT setting, I am thoroughly pleased with the drive's performance, with not a hint of throttling due to heat issues.This HeatSink may cost a little more than others, but the additional surface area and fin design can't hurt when trying to keep a high performance M.2 NVMe like a 980 Pro running cool.Highly Recommend!

My previous PS4 began overheating due to typical age and it's manufacturing shortfalls regarding the fan and thermal paste. That said, I bought a new PS5 over a year ago. I immediately bought this heat sink and the m.2 SSD. I installed them together and started downloading everything I could while playing graphically intense games, just to put it through it's paces. It was sort of a gamble, because at the time there wasn't much information for aftermarket console heat sinks. But it's worked great. Not a single error code, electrical burn, or heat odor. I will note, during install, pay attention to the size of your SSD and the provided thermal pad placement. It matters because if done incorrectly, the bay will not close and your storage device may not work. For me, the pads, screws, and sink were a perfect fit. All that said, I would open it up and inspect every 6-12 months since it's a relatively new product for the market.

Alright, so I’ve actually had my SSD inside the PS5 for a couple days without any heat sink before I ordered this one. To be honest, I didn’t notice any issue with heat on the SSD without one. But with me moving big games like Call of Duty into it I decided I didn’t want to risk possibly overheating and frying the SSD. So I ended up buying this heatsink because it just looked like it’d do the job well. After installing it and playing a few games on the SSD for a few hours, I can open the panel and feel that the heatsink is still pretty cool. So it’s definitely either doing it’s job, or it’s just overkill. But one potential issue I can see is that it’s a bit tall. When you install it and put the PS5 panel on, you can look through the front vents and see that this heatsink actually blocks a substantial amount of the vent space. Meaning the console itself would be getting less airflow. It hasn’t really become an issue yet, but it’s just something I noticed. Other than that, it’s a good heatsink. And to clarify, I’m using the WD_Black SN770 M.2 SSD. So yes it fits just fine on it.