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Fatwah on Western Digital
Maybe just maybe m.2 isn't the best form factor in the world for this stuff?
I'm sure it's great in a server. Unfortunately neither Intel nor the AMD have implemented it in the enthusiast motherboards.![]()
It's highly likely it'll still work. Just take the board out of the enclosure and let it dry thoroughly for a few days. Electronics and water are mainly a problem if they sit in water for more than a few days. A wash/rinse cycle doesn't qualify. That's not long enough for the water to start to corrode things. If you're lucky the drive may even have a conformal coating to protect it from humidity. That in theory should mean no issues being in water for a short time.This is an 860 EVO 2TB M.2 drive in a USB-C enclosure that is no longer available.
I put the SSD and circuit board into the desiccator with Co indicating silica gel. I don't have molecular sieves or P2O5 handy.
I suspect it has more to do with attention deficit while doing the laundry.Why would you wash it with regularity, some kind of superstition?
I suspect it has more to do with attention deficit while doing the laundry.
How much of a gap? Heat sink compound is generally designed to be used only to fill very thin gaps on the order of a few thousandths of an inch. If used in thicker layers, there might be too much thermal impedance.Can I put compound on it to fill the gap or is that not stable?
I guess it'll be OK. We're not talking about high power level per square mm like a microprocessor. Like you said, anything is better than air.The pads are like 1mm or so. If there is <1mm of goop is that better or worse than 1mm of pad?
I know that anything will be better than AIR that is there now.![]()
It is not an NVMe drive.This is actually good to know, when on some future day I wash an NVMe drive instead of just a crappy USB one.