It's a Sunon Mighty Mini Fan.

I feel for most users, who aren't going to thrash the drive, they'd have been better off using the exterior of the case for passive cooling.

Yeah. totally

@Muki I wanna install one on my on my rp3+ as an exhaust

Lol same

MSI Motherboards have m.2 latches

@@My-Hunt mine doesn't. It's only on high end boards i guess

playing as devil's advocate, if that rubber breaks then it is light's out (Not really as you can use a m.2 even without that screw however it just wouldn't feel safe)

​@@ZOCCOK they do send a spare though (I bought one myself a couple of weeks ago)

besides... it's not something you'll open frequently

Yeah, I am curious to know if I can use these for such purpose. Do you have any ideas? Specially for phones. Also if I can use them for pc. Simply like an SD card for phones, SSD for PC. Would it be good and reliable for such purpose in the long term?

@@plows2940 Hubs work. The dock that Valve makes is basically just a normal usb hub that doubles as a stand, and they openly advertise that you don't need to specifically buy theirs to get the additional ports. I've no clue why one would damage it... That makes no sense whatsoever.

wholeheartedly agree!!👌

@@MentalEdge because nintendo idiots think its like there shitty device which actually did manage to get damaged by a third party dock but how? you might ask its just a usb c dock yeah its nintendo and they did a super fucky proprietary implimentation of usb C docking that meant that docks which followed the official usb c protocol would cause the switch to brick itself nintendo of course claiming that those where low quality docks and ignoring the accusations they purposley did this to encourage people to buy there crap but yeah no you can use any dock with the deck the only thing id say is just pick a reasonable quality one that people have reviewed and confirmed works well on deck mainly just to avoid some shitty cheap dock malfunctioning and breaking your deck but thats not a deck issue thats a dock issue and would fry any device you plugged it into jsaux belkin plugable valve dell lenovo maybe a couple of decent amazon brands would all be fine

@@plows2940 You can use hubs on the deck no problem. Any USB-C hub designed for a laptop will work without issue on the deck. They should not cause any damage.

Remember when you couldn't tie your shoe laces?

I still have some 20 gig hdds from the 90s

lol yeah and 10yrs from now we're going to be laughing about spending $160-$200 on a 2TB M.2 NVME drive. By that time you'll probably be able to buy one for $10-$15.

I didn't even realize Kioxia did micro SD. I only see 256 GB, though. Not even 512 or 1 TB available. I have given up on Samsung micro SD, due to failures. I was kind of worried that only Sandisk Extreme seemed to be my viable reliable.

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@@droopy_eyes they only run a few watts. There are tons of aluminium passive ssd enclosures. The heat only ramps because the drives themselves have like 0 thermal mass.

it's just USB-C 3.1 gen 2 limiting bandwidth to 1GB/s@@droopy_eyes

When you buy it, does it come alone or with storage?

@@Iq.Alhashed Alone. You have to add your own storage.

Have you got one? How's it for everyday use? Like for phones and pc. Is it good for using these for alternates for sd card and ssd?

@@nazmulhuda3262. Hi, I sold it, it was too noisy for me, also the silicone case is really bad :) I bought a cheaper one on AliExpress and I'm happy with it

Yep , it’s actually worse when data is written to the Ssd when it’s colder & then later the drive is stored in a warmer place.

sheesh so the (PCIE 4.0)gen 4 tends to get hotter than (PCIE 3.0)gen 3 will the gen 4 last longer than gen 3?

@demon6937 I think overall it will be the same longevity as NAND technology has really advanced over the years and most brands can outlive a HDD. But it's higher shouldn't throttle speed, you only need to worry about protecting the PCB and surrounding motherboard which the stickers on M.2, or the thin metal cover some come with, or laptops metal holder is sufficient enough to do

@@betablockrr another question would the 10gbps ssd enclosure enough for storage purposes? I've seen 20gbps and 40gbps(thunderbolt) but the enclosure tends to be more expensive.

@demon6937 10Gbps would be perfectly fine, even SATA SSD at 6Gbps is still pretty fast and for most uses like games, updates and file transfer you won't notice much difference unless your transferring 100GB at a time. Also just letting you know that thunderbolt enclosures will say 40Gbps but thunderbolt limits it to 20-22Gbps as it reserves the rest for video signaling

yea fr

I think AirJet is probably still expensive, but you can have air cooling without fans.

I think... I would try to edit and render videos off this.

You say that but it's a Sunon and they are the gods of well made fans

Taki said he has had overheating with other external enclosures. Maybe he moves more data, especially if test related. It's not how often you use it, but how much data you move when you do. Someone infrequently, might actually be moving more games, than the person who is frequently moving only one or two around. Kind of like when people get a new phone and they're loading it up with all their apps, their new phone gets hot and they forgot how hot their old phone alkali was, when new doing the big load. I think the less frequent someone does it, the more games they will have completed or tired of and the more they'll want to load up.

not worth it on such tiny screens

Preach

Yeah this would be better than running off an SD card, I found that to be very slow, and they're not meant to run an operating system really (no wear levelling / trim support). You could also partition the internal SSD, but this isn't officially supported.

@@liamness not a fan of partitioning the Deck. First I don't know how to do it and could mess up, second I want to keep Steam OS. My question now is: where/how do you buy that small SSD that you put inside the case? According to Taki, this product is only the case, so i would have to buy the SSD itself, but all I find on Google are long ones that don't fit

@@Diamondhaseo "m.2 2230" is the magical term you need to google. m.2 is the interface, 2230 is the form factor. Same type of SSD that the Steam Deck uses internally.

@@liamness It wouldn't be so much of a big deal if systems weren't so reliant on "virtual memory" (swapping data from ram to disk and back) and you had a different storage device available for temp files. Just read/write a file now and then isn't quite as bad as constantly reading and writing. The latter would be slow on a spinning disk, but can cause significant wear and tear on flash memory.

​@@Diamondhaseo M.2 2230 is the term used for this form factor. Also Amazon has a sale for the Sabrnet version of this card for $100 for a 1TB

Dear Santa...

@@SRC267 ?

the campain is not yet started ok.

Big ones do

Well newer pcie m.2s 5.0s need a bit more coolijg compared to old m.2s but a portable one shouldn't need active cooling maybe a small heat sink.

@@snowwolf120 dang I mean I have burned my hand on a USB stick before so I guess it makes sense they need cooling but I've never seen any kind of hard drive, CD, SD card, DVD, floppy disk, etc need cooling.

@@bland9876 wtf are you doing to your usb sticks that they get hot

@@snowwolf120 I see you've never used a USB thumb drive before. They get hot when you use them. Specifically the metat part that goes in the hole.

most external storage drives will have passive cooling through the actual housing like aluminum but they are long im guessing this is great for portability and to not have a long tumor on the side while youre trying to play a game as for the heat factor, not sure which ones you use or how you use the drives. they get warm if youre using it as a drive that you play from and not transferring files over. since the drive is active most of the time, the housing will get hot. especially since its short, less surface area to dissipate the heat.

I doubt this small fan moves enough air for the grill to restrict it. I'd bet a lunch if they used the case as the heatsink they'd get better cooling than that fan can provide.