Simple and optimally milled aluminum plate, sounds like a good basis for some SSD heatsink with the potential to achieve high efficiency at low cost. Fast, easy installation and great compatibility with graphics cards is also quite important, plus the look is not bad. Akasa probably wanted to create an ideal compromise of all the key elements. This could easily became a bestseller because the price is just 4 euros.
Conclusion
Akasa heatsink is an excellent product that would fit any SSD PCIe. Compared to the superior EKWB, there are some drawbacks, mostly because of attributes of the stock thermalpad. The efficiency nicely increased with the 1mm Arctic. However, the price is so attractive that there’s no reason to dwell on details. We can imagine a bit better shape of the heatsink, but we also understand that the manufacturer wanted to make something that is also visually appealing and to show off their logo somewhere.
What matters is that that the heatsink can reduce the temperature of your SSD by 20 – 30 ºC, the installation is super easy, and it’s available in every decent shop. It’s simply a great deal for the money. If you know about some other cheap solution for SSD cooling, leave us a comment and we’ll gladly give it a closer look.
For its cooling efficiency and price, we decided to give Akasa SSD heatsink our award “Go for it!“.
| Akasa M.2 SSD heatsink |
| + cooling performance, significantly reduces the temperature of the controller |
| + effective design |
| + easy installation |
| + great availability in most stores |
| + attractive price |
| – slightly heats the memory |
| – possible collisions with graphics cards in very rare situations |
| Price: 4 euros |
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