Memory vendor Teamgroup has apparently created an M.2 SSD drive that’s so fast it uses an all-in-one liquid cooler to keep it running.
The Taiwanese company teased the product in a video released this week. The component itself is shrouded in darkness, but you can still make out the large fan and liquid pumps attached to the SSD drive. Dubbed the Cardea II Liquid SSD, Teamgroup plans on showing it off during a Sept. 23 company event.
The name suggests it's a follow-up to the T-Force Cardea Water Cooling M.2 SSD drive, which can reach read/write speeds of up to 3,400/3,000 MB/s over a PCIe Gen 3.0 interface.
It too uses liquid cooling, but does so without a fan. Instead, the product simply features a vial of liquid built into the drive that can absorb and transfer hot temperatures into an adjacent heatsink. “By using the self-circulation cooling effect, this product is proven it can effectively lower the temperature down about 10 degrees (celsius) to avoid crashes due to overheating, and maintain a stable, high-speed performance,” the company said at the time.
The Cardea II Liquid, on the other hand, promises to raise the cooling up another level. Many of the top-perforing NVME SSD drives are now using the PCIe 4.0 interface for much faster read and write speeds. However, achieving those max speeds can generate lots of heat, so TeamGroup seems to be addressing the problems by adding an AIO cooler to the drive.
We’ll have to wait and see how the Cardea II Liquid works, and more importantly how it can fit inside a desktop PC. During Teamgroup’s Sept. 23 event, the company plans on also showing off the Cardea A440 Pro SSD, which appears to have a sizable built-in heatsink to mitigate the overheating issues.
