Anyway one of my favourite aspects of 3D printing is when it solves simple practical problems quickly.
Built a new PC this week so my printer could go into the "work room" and out of the office. The new PC has an m.2 Samsung 951 SSD and I noticed it was running very hot during long sequential read/writes (70+ DegC in a very well ventilated case)
not surprising as it's 2200MB read and 1600 writes.... Note to Samsung.. these drives need heat sinks not a sticker saying warranty void if removed.. if you want to apply your own heat sinks you'll void your warranty!
So in just over an hour i'd dug out a 40mm fan, designed and printed out a crude mount to blast air onto the m.2 drive and its maintaining <=55 Deg C now.
Yeah it's clipping over the eSATA connectors.. but i'll never use them (does anyone?). Yes it's a little simple crudely designed thing and a tad oversized but it solves the problem and it's this aspect that really impresses me about 3D printing.
I've got numerous examples but i'd just like to share this one as it was so quick.... yeah I got lucky with the angle of the mount not restricting the GFX card fan
- Crude fan mount