Sabrent Says Its New 14GB/S PCIe Gen 5 SSD Doesn’t Need a Huge Heatsink or a Fan While Using Phison E26 Controller Chip

“Aside from a big step up in sequential throughput speeds, seemingly the common denominator for the latest PCIe Gen 5 SSDs is the need for beefy active cooling to rival an RTX 4090. Well, almost. But not so with the new Sabrent Rocket 5. Sabrent reckons it’ll do just fine with one of those slim-line cooling covers that comes with most motherboard M.2 slots.

If true, that’s particularly impressive given the new Rocket 5 not only uses the same Phison E26 controller chip as the bulk of existing Gen 5 drives, which tend to have massive heatsinks or even require active cooling. It’s also one of if not the fastest Gen 5 drives yet.”