A Closer Look
The heatsink faceplates are all black coated aluminium, and nice and thick too, to aid with cooling performance and durability.
The actual lightsaber part is actually a cut-out on the face plate. Also, looking at the back of the plate, there’s a small EK logo, who I’m guessing designed the actual hardware of the cooler. Looking back there’s a tiny EK logo on the box too, albeit, no wording mentions their brand, which is a shame.
They all look great, and while the cut-out is meant for the RGB strip on the other part, the handle designs and logos look stunning, especially the little bit of chrome such as that found on the Darth Vader saber.
As you can see, there’s a milky white block inside the heatsink, this is what’s going to glow with the built-in RGB light, and should give it a great diffused and glowing look.
On the other end, there’s a two-pin header, which can be used with the RGB sync cable.
Around the back, the SSD sticker is placed on the heatsink, rather than on the PCB of the drive.
It seems to be glued in there or at least, it’s snug enough that I didn’t feel comfortable trying to remove it, so I’ll leave it be. However, it appears to be the flagship FireCuda drive we know and love, the same you often find in PC or PS5 bundles from them. The FireCuda 530 with a new sticker on it, effectively, so the Penta-Core powered Phison PS5018-E18 12nm controller and a pair of SK Hynix 8GB 1600 MHZ DDR4 chips with 3D TLC NAND to get
The actual heatsink is robust, covering the rear of the NVMe drive, and using four screws, and clamps to the drive, and has a lot of forward mass to provide plenty of heat dissipation. There’s a thick layer of thermal material too. Overall, it’s everything you could expect from a premium M.2 drive.
Want to swap a faceplate? No tools are required, just slide it off to one side. There’s a spring-loaded ball which clicks into place, holding the plate from sliding around once installed.
