TeamGroup Goes All in on Active SSD Cooling With a Trio of Towers

TeamGroup M.2 PCIe SSD coolers
(Image credit: TeamGroup)

PC memory and storage specialist TeamForce is hoping to stoke up excitement for the wares it will debut at Computex 2023. In a press release, the firm promised it would be showcasing a range of six new products to integrate with your PC. Unsurprisingly, the company has lined up various new DDR5, AiO cooling and USB flash products, but what has caught our eye is the trio of new M.2 SSD coolers.

The transition to M.2 NVMe PCIe Gen5 storage is making more powerful thermal solutions a necessity. To swerve the specter of performance destroying thermal throttling, most PC users equipping these super fast SSDs will need at least a hefty heatsink, and some kind of active cooling may be preferable.

TeamGroup is stepping up to meet this latent demand, and has lined up three M.2 SSD coolers dubbed the T-Force Dark AirFlow Cooler Series. These are designed to pair up with the fastest flagship PCIe Gen5 SSD from T-Force, which may be a reference to the 14.3 GB/s T-Force Z54A SSD. However, we don't see why they couldn't be used in tandem other SSD brands' M.2 2280 sticks.

TeamGroup described the bunch as airflow coolers "equipped with an exclusively-designed aluminum fin heatsink with multiple layers and heat pipes passing through." Moreover, they are all said to feature an active cooling fan. In one of the cooler pictures no fan is actually visible, so we are assuming it is embedded in the fins on the far side of the cooling tower, out of view.

It is good to see a well-known vendor offering this trio of SSD cooling options, but taken individually, they aren't anything special. For example, we have seen a multitude of tower-like SSD cooler designs with fans, as well as one that is cylindrical, launched in the last few months.

TeamGroup has yet to divulge any information about bundling these new SSD coolers, or whether they will be sold separately. We also look forward to pricing and availability information from Computex next week.

(Image credit: TeamGroup)

Elsewhere in TeamForce's Computex press release, it mentions its T-Force Xtreem DDR5 Overclocking Memory, which will be made available in frequencies starting from 7,000MHz~8,266MHz. There will be an aRGB edition of this Xtreem DDR5 OC memory series. There's also the new T-Force Siren GA360 ARGB CPU All-In-One Liquid Cooler, developed in collaboration with Asetek, and using the latter party's seventh gen pump. This Siren AiO cooler is designed so that it can chill both your CPU and an M.2 SSD.

Mark Tyson
News Editor

Mark Tyson is a news editor at Tom's Hardware. He enjoys covering the full breadth of PC tech; from business and semiconductor design to products approaching the edge of reason.

  • Amdlova
    That ssd with these things will be a nightmare Ugly prone to faliure.
    Reply
  • tennis2
    The cylindrical design is the best IMO, although I'm not sure why they think it needs to stick up so high.

    The tower-like ones are pointless since the tiny diameter fan is also impossibly thin.

    You know what would actually be the best for a PCIe5.0 SSD cooler!?!
    https://www.tomshardware.com/news/fanless-airjet-cooling-tech-debuts-in-zotac-zbox-mini-pc
    Reply
  • atomicWAR
    Yeah no thank you. I am plenty happy with my PCIe 4.0 drive that max out the 4x bus without needing cooling on par with a nuclear reactor. My CPU and GPU are creating enough heat and those heat-sinks are unsightly.
    Reply
  • RichardtST
    I would love these as long as they have THEIR OWN temperature sensor to turn on the fan only when needed. If their fan runs all the time then they are useless as they make way too much noise. I have a similar one and had to just set the fan really low in the bios at a fixed speed. To make it really worthwhile, it needs to run only when needed.
    Reply
  • Roland Of Gilead
    atomicWAR said:
    Yeah no thank you. I am plenty happy with my PCIe 4.0 drive that max out the 4x bus without needing cooling on par with a nuclear reactor. My CPU and GPU are creating enough heat and those heat-sinks are unsightly.
    Right on!! Totally agree
    Reply
  • atomicWAR
    Roland Of Gilead said:
    Right on!! Totally agree
    Always kind to me with the upvotes. Thanks for that and back at you!

    Also love the handle. King is my favorite and the Gunslinger series is his magnum opus.
    Reply
  • PEnns
    This is getting ridiculous! If this trend continues, every PC part will need it's own cooler

    Maybe the fans will soon need their own fans or coolers!!.
    Reply
  • cyrusfox
    Waiting for a Steampunk design :)

    All overkill though, even Optane 110mm 905p, only topped out at 10W. This is more of a stylistic choice, just like water cooling Ram sticks or Mobo chipsets. Purely for aesthetics, although I do like the routing ability some of the WC motherboards bring, just could never personally justify the cost.
    Reply
  • TechieTwo
    These are a waste of money just like the RGB gimmick.
    Reply
  • atomicWAR
    PEnns said:
    This is getting ridiculous! If this trend continues, every PC part will need it's own cooler Maybe the fans will sonn need their own fans!!.
    Yeah they want to drive us to dielectric liquid submerged rigs like the big server farms. Its getting nutz how much heat these new rigs put out.
    Reply