TeamGroup company has officially presented to the world the latest solid state drive of the N74V-M80 series, the main feature of which is a unique cooling system. The manufacturer on the official website noted that this is the first M.2 disk in the industry with cooling based on the evaporation chamber – according to the company’s developers, this will significantly increase the potential of the memory controller and drive in general. No full reviews from independent publications so far, but this system looks really interesting.

The mechanism of operation of the evaporation chamber is extremely simple – inside the case there is a liquid that, when heated by a heat source (in this case, the memory controller of a solid-state drive), emits steam, which, in turn, gradually cools, leaving condensation on the walls of the evaporation chamber. This condensate mixes back into the liquid stream, thereby triggering a continuous process of evaporation within the heat sink. This is a much more efficient cooling mode compared to the construction of traditional heat pipes that transfer heat to the radiator.

However, the developers of TeamGroup N74V-M80 went even further, combining two cooling options at once – in this drive there is both an advanced evaporation chamber (as in many modern smartphones) and a regular aluminum radiator with rather large ribs. The authors of the product noted that such a solution allows for efficient removal of heat from the storage controller and memory chips (although they heat up significantly less than the controller). And if you believe the information on the official website, the model can work at temperatures from -40 to +85 ° C.

Other features of the drive are quite standard – the manufacturer uses 3D TLC memory chips with PCIe 3.0 x4 interface according to the NVMe 1.3 specification. Accordingly, the novelty will not show any records in terms of transfer – the maximum read speed is 3445 MB/s, for writing – 2520 MB/s. In addition, the potential buyer only gets three memory options – 128, 256 and 512 GB. Why such advanced cooling technology is not installed on the flagship SSD is an open question.