Storage (Internal vs Module): Newbie would like some assistance

[Fraoch]

Does anyone know the height/clearance needed for the NVME? It was suggested there’s enough room for a copper shim heat sink. Have looked and can’t locate this spec. WD makes a 2T and 4T NVME with an attached heat sink.

Any room for M.2 heatsink?

Now that I actually have my Framework and those heatspreaders, I couldn’t dare to use them. There is just no room, not even for 1mm of copper. I broke out the micrometers and measured 4.17mm from the mainboard base to the top of the cooler, which seems to be the component that stands tallest. I then measured 3.39mm from the top of the M.2 to the mainboard base. That’s a difference of only 0.78mm. No way was I going to put a 0.5mm thermal pad plus a 1mm copper plate here. I thought it would caus…

Note despite my concerns, most have reported a copper pad works well. Just not the huge heatsink WD supplies with these drives!

I keep reading larger sized (2T and up) SSDs produce a fair amount of heat and then suffer performance issues.

Yes but only under sustained load. The faster they are, the quicker they get over the load and go back to idle.

Does partitioning OS from storage on the same drive mitigate this?

Does keeping the OS and programs separate of storage (external storage media) assist in this?

Depends on your usage pattern. The OS involves mostly reading, not writing. Storage - if you’re using large games then lots of reading and potentially lots of writing (though in bursts).