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I am building a mini-itx pc, any suggesting on ssd placement? (self.pcgaming)

submitted 3 months ago by SuperSaiyanSwag to c/[email protected]

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Hi everyone, I am building a mini-ITX based pc and the motherboard I bought is Asrock B650I, which has one m.2 PCIe slot in the front and one in the back. The issue is that the back one is obviously a weird spot, that ssd will have to be the ssd that just stays there forever if I don’t want to remove the whole motherboard for it. Just needed your suggestion on which ssd you would put in the back, The 1TB WD_Black or The 2tb MSI. The back would likely not fit a heat sink.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

If they don't come with a heatsink, they're usually fine to run without a heatsink. Just check reviews for the ssd to see if they have overheating issues.

I haven't found m2 ssds to get very hot, personally. Only when copying extremely large files or big amounts of files that take longer than 10 or so minutes I have seen temperatures in the 60s (C), but usually its down near 50 or less.