CFD Gaming recently launched the PG5NFZ, a PCIe Gen 5 M.2 NVMe SSD that features up to 10 GB/s of sequential read speed and up to 9.5 GB/s of sequential write speed—but that’s not the only thing that the drive has to offer. According to reviews and reports from early owners, the SSD also comes with a very loud heat sink fan, an unadvertised feature that many have noticed while stress testing the 49,980 yen (~376 USD) drive, currently available in 2 TB capacity. Images shared by the @jisakuhibi account suggest that the fan can reach noise levels of nearly 50 dB.
From an AKIRA PC Hotline! report (machine translation):
The series was announced in October 2022, and the 2TB was scheduled to be released in November 2022, but the release was postponed. In addition, 1 TB “CSSD-M2M1TPG5NFZ” and 4 TB “CSSD-M2M4TPG5NFZ” are also available for CFD sales, but this time they have not arrived.
The performance values (maximum) for 4TB and 2TB are sequential read 10GB/s, sequential write 9.5GB/s, random read 1,500K IOPS, and random write 1,250K IOPS.
The performance value (maximum) of 1TB is sequential read 9.5GB/s, sequential write 8.5GB/s, random read 1,300K IOPS, random write 1,100K IOPS.
The board is equipped with a fan-integrated heat sink “Phnix” with a thickness of 20 mm. High cooling performance suppresses heat generation and exhibits stable high-speed performance. The cable length is 45cm and equipped with a 5V connector.
In addition, there is a note in the product information that “Please pay attention to the air flow in the PC case so that the heat of the heat sink can be dissipated.”
CFD CSSD-M2M2TPG5NFZ
— 188号 (@momomo_us) February 5, 2023
2TB , Gen5 x4 , PS5026-E26
CPU : Core i7-13700K
MB : Z790 Steel Legend WiFi
MEM : DDR5-4800 16GBx2 pic.twitter.com/qCMmaLRNI9
ｷﾞｭ-ﾝ⬇️ｷﾞｭ-ﾝ⬆️ｷﾞｭ-ﾝ⬇️ｷﾞｭ-ﾝ⬆️ pic.twitter.com/JhCaRBJcDy
— 188号 (@momomo_us) February 5, 2023
CFD CSSD-M2M2TPG5NFZの冷却ファンはSUMON製、型番：MF17080V1-1000C-A99で、定格回転数”21,000”RPMです。
— 自作とゲームと趣味の日々 (@jisakuhibi) February 6, 2023
回転数2万越え、常時フル回転なので、普通に煩い。https://t.co/M9YG9CsDL1 pic.twitter.com/i2nF1m9iX7