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Old Jan 20, 2017 | 5:43 pm
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oneant
 
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Originally Posted by nkedel
You might want to watch the temperatures on the NVMe drive on that via SMART, or look at whether there's any way to get a heat sink on the controller chip for the NVMe card.

The NVMe drives all tend to run hot under load and the airflow in the NUC boxes is not super (although I don't have any hands-on experience with the skulltrail one and the bigger CPU fan on that may end up pulling air across the SSD as well)

There is probably some case hacking you can do if it turns out to be hot enough to cause throttling. Other than the thermals on the drive, looks like a superb setup, and as long as you can keep that bad boy cool you should be extremely pleased with the performance of the NVMe drive relative to a cheaper SATA one.
Good tip on the heat! I'll keep an eye on it. For the most part, the drive likely won't be under intense load often; just occasionally.
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