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JayGilb
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Placing an alligator clip between the cartridge and solder joint might help dissipate the heat, but am unsure how effective it might be.
Good idea! Maybe someone could head over to Mikey's Tracking Angle and ask him to try it.
He's got a sweet new $11,000 Audio-Technica "Speed of Sound" AT-MCD1 Moving Coil Phono Cartridge.
One that costs that much should be fairly durable, right ?
Roland68
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You can solder it, but that requires experience and a good, high-performance soldering station with the right tip.
The trick is to do it so quickly and precisely that the cartridge isn't subjected to any heat. First, clean the surface, tin it quickly and cleanly, and let it cool down completely. The actual soldering step itself should take well under a second.
Alternatively, there are now spot welders available for €20–50 with sufficient power; this is the method used for welding most cables and connectors in the industry.
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Good idea! Maybe someone could head over to Mikey's Tracking Angle and ask him to try it.
He's got a sweet new $11,000 Audio-Technica "Speed of Sound" AT-MCD1 Moving Coil Phono Cartridge.
One that costs that much should be fairly durable, right ?
Still hasn't learned about 3H distortion.
So to add this M2 SSD you have to add 2 noisy fans?
I'd pass.
Not necessarily... They have three wires, so they can be temperature-controlled using a controller.
But what's creating the heat in these cards? My Asus motherboard has 4 M2 slots with none requiring or even allowing for any direct fan cooling?
The one I'm currently use to multiboot 3 OS has a heat dispersing cover factory included, the other 3 totally bare.
I also have 5 SATA SSD internal drives totaling 11 TB of storage for music, etc.
I put a lot of consideration into keeping this box quiet, hence my interest in why that card would need those fans?
Hipocrates
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Some NVMe can get quite hot, active controlled heat management is a plus under heavy use (Big transfers, system backups, etc). To avoid thermal throttling, make sense.
It's probably designed for high performance not really casual tasks like streaming.
OK if the noise isn't a issue, why not. In my case I avoid fans like the plague whenever possible..
Maybe in that case a larger form factor like SATA might be a better choice though at a loss of speed transfer.
Hipocrates
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Exactly, all depends of the application, he seems to be focus on keep the NVMe under a certain temp while transfer let's say 50 or 100GB of data, a very low noise fan make sense. Low noise is a must for me on my main workstation and HTPC, but my proxmox server is noisy even with ''low noise" fans... that thing lives in a place where noise is not a problem, otherwise I would throw it thru the window.
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That SATA drives are caved by there plastic enclosures and can not be cooled directly, and plastic is not a very optimum for heat transfer medium.
Just saying.
Please visit my post here, and please read the specifications.
The fans are quiet enough, almost silent in10.3 dB(A); they cannot be heard at all from outside of the PC chassis...
Since any noise from them isn't a problem for you I guess it's a non-issue.Please visit my post here, and please read the specifications.
The fans are quiet enough, almost silent in10.3 dB(A); they cannot be heard at all from outside of the PC chassis...
It's simply that IME those small form 40mm fans tend to howl and I found it surprising that the nice large aluminum heat sink wouldn't be sufficient.
Not making criticisms, just curious.
Incorrect, My Crucial MX SSDs and Samsung 870 EVO are cased in aluminum for heat exchange and durability.
Sad to see all the old SATA SSD drives disappear but time marches on I guess.
I hope my current drives last for the duration here, Storage is just toooo crazy expensive today.
I believe that the nice large aluminum heat sink is sufficient enough for cooling M.2 NVMe SSD, but just for sure and for my further "heart-ease" — I mean so that I can completely forget about the heat issue of M.2NVMe SSD — I decided to add two almost-silent fans in push-pull configuration onto the heatsink.
The same for my HBA card as I have shared in my post here #22; in that case, I use dual 120x120x12 mm push-pull quiet almost-silent thin fans.
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Hipocrates
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Man that cartel and nvidia wiped the whole PC enthusiast market in a matter of months. RAM, Storage, GPUs and now mobos.
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