From PC World: It’s hard to believe it’s only been a year since we first witnessed Frore System’s radical solid-state AirJet Mini cooling technology at CES 2023. Promising a revolution in laptop cooling performance, it has since arrived in stores via the Zotac Zbox PI430AJ mini-PC, and Frore Systems isn’t stopping there. At CES 2024, it was showing off a demonstration that proves the AirJet Mini could deliver huge performance leaps for SSDs, too.
Solid-state drives are notoriously temperature-sensitive; the more the temperature ramps up, the more they throttle performance. And more modern SSDs are so fast that they generate surprising amounts of heat, which is why so many bleeding-edge PCIe 5.0 SSDs come bundled with massive heatsinks. If you can keep them cool, modern SSDs can run screaming fast.
But big heatsinks can’t keep SSDs as cool as the AirJet Mini can. This forward-thinking technology uses several layers of exotic materials and precision geometry to vibrate tiny membranes, intaking air, blowing it over a copper heat spreader, and exhausting it at up to 200 kilometers per hour. It is significantly smaller, cooler, and quieter than traditional fans, and its small size means you can cram it into some surprising places — like a tiny passive portable SSD enclosure.
At CES, Frore Systems showed how slipping two tiny AirJet Minis into a passively cooled 8TB Sabrent portable SSD enclosure can drastically improve all aspects of performance. Okay, okay, Frore showed something similar at Computex last summer, but the performance was drastically better this time around.
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