The world of PC customization has gone pretty vain over the years. From LED light strips to LED fans to full-blown screens—every part of your rig wants to be the next Vegas strip. We now have screens on CPU coolers, GPUs, and random panels inside the case that serve no purpose other than to look like Times Square at 3 a.m. And now? Screens have arrived on SSD coolers.
Yes, you heard that right. For most people, SSDs don’t even need a cooler—let alone a screen—but here we are. Folks, meet the Thermalright HR-10 2280 Pro Digital SSD Cooler. It’s an unnecessarily chunky active cooler for your hardworking SSD, topped with a digital display to show info like speed, temperature, and other numbers you’ll probably stop looking at after day one.
How does it get this data? Through a USB header with the help of Thermalright’s software. Translation: even more cable spaghetti in your case. Add a USB 2.0 connector for the display, a 4-pin header to power the fan, and voilà—you’ve just given cables to the one component that never needed them. LOL.
For the record, it’s rocking 4 heatpipes, and that tiny fan screams at 3,500–6,500 RPM. It’s not a full-blown LCD/OLED panel (no anime loops yet), but give it time. Soon, the inside of your PC will look like a cyberpunk city—billboards, neon, the works.
No official price yet, but AliExpress listings show it going for around US$25 to US$30.
Images: Thermalright.
Story via PC Gamer.