FEATURED Alphacool Eisblock HDX-2 M.2 / PCIe Cooler/ RAID results

As I promissed, here are couple of tests of Alphacool Eisblock HDX-2 SSD cooler with PCIe controller.

Couple of photos.

















Review has been published here.

For tests I used ASUS X299 TUF Mark 2 motherboard and two Patriot Hellfire 240GB M.2 NVMe SSD.
Because of Intel's politics there are some limitations regarding RAID and it's simply not working without hardware key so for RAID tests has been used software "RAID". Simply stripped dynamic volume in Win10. Performance is about the same as on Intel RST.

First result is single drive, second is in RAID.










The HDX-2 is a simple way to run SSD above DMI limits so ~3.9GB/s ( for all devices ). Random bandwidth is also a bit better than on M.2 sockets on Z270 motherboard but it can be also matter of drivers or something else.
I couldn't measure temps of the SSD under load. I will check that again in other soft and maybe it will read it. However these SSD are not overheating like some Samsungs so I don't worry about it.