Will an SSD with a heatsink fit just fine?

@yami98729 - There’s a bit more than physically fitting it! Just because this SSD has a shallow heat sink it’s not very effective!

There is two modes to heat sinks.

- The first is a heat dump allowing the device in this case a SSD to display its buildup heat into the heat sink. But once the heat sink is at equilibrium with the SSD’s heat level it doesn’t offer any further benefit!

- The second mode is to send the heat away within an air stream. In the case of CPU’s we have a split system a heat dump and then a heat removal part which is where the heat transfer tubes within a fin unit with a fan blowing across shed the heat externally!

Here with your SSD you don’t have any room for that with this heat sink it is nothing more than a heat dump without a means to get rid of it’s collected heat. The heat sinks which have sizable fins in them assume the air flow across can wick away the heat.

So you are double dammed here as the lack of sufficient surface area to even allow the little airflow that might pass by a way to take the heat away.

Which is why not having one is the better answer as there’s more surface to shed the heat within the unobstructed air flow.