Adata XPG Storm: good looking but not efficient

Conclusion

16,500 rpm is extreme. A tiny fan in the unique SSD cooler by Adata can run at such a speed. We expected that it will be possible to regulate it and choose a reasonable setting, but there is no compromise in this design, and frankly, so many imperfections make it very difficult to see something positive about this product, which is a shame because the “core“ is pretty effective.

Conclusion

Adata XPG Storm may reduce the temperature of your SSD by 30 °C, but it is not a very good solution anyway. The inappropriate fan is counterproductive under standard circumstances (which means properly working system cooling). The flow of the fan interferes with the system airflow and the more it blows the more heat. The passive operation of this SSD cooler is simply more efficient.

With a high load, the situation changes a bit. A significant increase in heat output requires a higher static pressure, which in practice means that fan at 9 V@35 dBA beats the passive operation (by 0.4 °C). At maximum speed, the difference in temperatures is more noticeable (3.6 °C), but the noise is mad, 47.3 dBA.

The heatsink is decent. If there was a backplate, it would be able to compete even with EKWB EK-M.2. The backplate also absorbs some heat, and Storm obviously could use it. It is proved by the fact that temperatures of the controller casing are practically the same as with EKWB, but the thermocouple (under the controller) shows significantly higher values.

RGB backlighting works well. Applications of the boards (Asus, Gigabyte, MSI and Asrock are officially supported) allow you to configure everything to your liking (colours, intensity, and so on).

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• Contents
• Details
• Test procedures
• Results: Cooling of the controller and memory
• Heatsink temperatures
• Noise
• Conclusion