The MSI Spatium M580 is a new solid-state drive that the Taiwanese manufacturer just unveiled at CES. And as you will see in the pictures, it is spectacular because it is assembled complete custom liquid cooling system.

We talked about it for months temperature problems PCIe Gen5 SSD. The latest generation of the internal storage standard that offers fantastic data transfer performance but is very hot. A serious problem that has certainly caused the biggest in the sector (Samsung, WD and Kioxia) not to market Gen5 drives yet.

Each manufacturer tries to overcome the problem in different ways. We’ll start by seeing giant passive heatsinks and then the addition of small fans. But that doesn’t seem to be enough to keep temperatures at bay MSI took the “bull by the horns” and designed – no less – a custom liquid cooling system.

The MSI Spatium M580 Frozr Liquid packs a small but complete and autonomous AIO with a heat transfer base, an integrated water pump, a mini radiator and a blower-type fan to dissipate heat from the fins. The manufacturer says that it can be attached to any M.2 connector on the motherboard, although it will obviously be intended for enthusiast desktop machines, since it cannot be mounted on laptops. Is this much cooling necessary or is it a technological boast?

For the rest, let’s say that it is an M.2 2280 SSD with support for the latest version of the NVMe protocol and connected to a PCIe 5.0 slot to get the maximum performance that exceeds 14 GB/s in sequential reading. Its controller is a Phison E26, which several integrators have already used. It specializes in accelerating workloads on NVMe Gen5 SSDs, including direct access technologies based on the Microsoft DirectStorage API.

MSI will sell this SSD in storage capacities 1, 2 and 4 bytes. No price or availability was provided for the advanced unit that confirms Gen5’s thermal issues. Don’t worry too much. A PCIe Gen 4 SSD is more than sufficient for the vast majority of use cases, only requires a small passive cooler, the offerings are great, and the prices remain moderate.