You may be asked why you don't often recommend Gen5NVMe drives (but I recommend it to be fair). Now, I'm often not asked what I guess, but the answer remains the same as when they first came out — they are very fast, but at least the game

more than that, they are again more expensive compared to Gen4. And there are kickers - they also tend to run very, very hot.

At the team Group's Computex2024 booth, there were some fresh examples of speedy small drives, including the T-Force Pro SSD with a quoted 14,173MB/s read speed and 12,757 write speeds, which were apparently readily available in an 8TB configuration. I asked how much it could potentially cost, and one of the representatives at the booth laughed knowingly before shaking their heads.

It will be quite expensive. Just a premonition. Anyway, speedy, expensive. Same old story, really. But what about the heat?

Well, the team group seems to be iterating on the cooler design to beat the heat from the 5th generation drive, with some potential pre-production ideas on display. The problem is that no one really avoids the fact that to get the most out of the top spec Gen5 drive, they seem to need a miniature tower block to prevent throttling in long-term use.

The best of these cooling concepts is a multi heatsink configuration held together with magnets and a more stackable module with extra cooling capacity that was very happy to hold, and if I'm honest, I'd pretty much want one as a desk toy — snap the heatsink together.

But what I can't really lag behind is this DDR5RAM cooler. I was sure it was actually for a machine with limited cooling capacity, not a requirement for cooling the DDR5 on the display, but installing a small, adjustable hovercraft at the top of the RAM feels like a stretch solution to a problem that shouldn't exist.

The first appreciated it for the value of novelty. The more I thought about the potential need for it, but the more it made me shake my head.

Fans, fans, and more fans. As swift solid-state hardware climbs further into the stratosphere of extreme performance, despite some clever (and not clever) thermal breakdown designs, the T-Force Xtreem DDR5 desktop RAM is now available in pink. I don't usually mention existing products just because they came in new colors, but as a fan of all-black hardware, I actually look rather like

ice cream, right?..