Gigabyte PCI-E 5 SSD's nanocarbon coating may cause cancer

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https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gigabyte-aorus-gen5-12000-ssd-review

Gigabyte markets the heatsink, also known as the M.2 Thermal Guard Xtreme, as having nanocarbon coating for improved performance for the dual-heatpipe,
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/carbon-nanotube-danger/

thin carbon nanotubes look and behave like asbestos fibers, which have been shown to cause mesothelioma , a deadly cancer of the membrane lining the body's internal organs
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/may/20/asbestos.nanotubes

2 different sources, among other links that you can dig on the internet, are saying that if you use nanocarbon, you can get lung cancer. So w/ that giant nanocarbon coated heatsink from gigabyte heats up, I don't know if anyone should sniff the smell

PS5 and laptop users are also left out in the cold as PCIe 5.0 drives don’t work well with the console and need heatsinks for proper operation
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on other matter, all PCIe 5 SSD has to have that sandwich size heatsink? as I've seen some motherboard that the PCIe x16 video card slot is next to the m.2 spot on the motherboard, so the m.2 SSD heatsink is going to impact the video card then
 
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Any small biosimilar or non expectable fibers (generally) can cause asbestosis or mesothelioma (or a host of other conditions.) These generally accumulate over the course of years, where there was a high concentration of the fibers in the air (usually from fraying insulation over miles of pipes in an enclosed space, or thousands of square feet on panels.) I highly doubt that 3 square inches of the tubes, bound in a polymer adhesive will (on its own) give you lung cancer. Of course anything CAN happen, I just wouldn't expect it WILL happen.
 
ooohhh more clickbait bullshit, from years ago...
everything, including breathing, causes cancer in commieforina.
 
but when that thing heats up, say, you are backup the entire 2TB drive, it gets much hotter, in that case, doesn't the heat dissipate much more of the surface chemical into the air? would you be able to smell it in the air surrounding under that circumstance?

I agree for normal use, like you say, "accumulate over the course of the yr." If the drive is sitting at idle, say, you are just typing a letter, or browsing on the internet, no problem.

1 other thing, I just find out their competitor is much faster and they are NOT using this carbon nanotube, just plain old metal:

https://www.crucial.com/ssd/t700/CT2000T700SSD3
 
It's a very tiny amount. The probability that a single little bit causes a cell to do the wrong thing and not die for most cancer causing substances is very low. It's the long-term consistent exposure that causes a binomial probability to go up and up until something does (maybe) happen. That's smoking, or diesel exhaust, or landfill/garbage work, or radiation exposure, etc. One little heatsink you'll have for a few years will not cause a statistically significant cancer risk increase.
 
Happy Hopping said:
I read the review from Maximum PC Feb 2024 yesterday
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not what you posted...
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And that's why there needs to be testing of products on animals first.

I hear Rabbits are perfect for this.
 
I don't know how comfortable anyone should feel w/ a heatsink of that size, I've seen sandwich smaller than that.

By contrast, Crucial only have a small regular metal heatsink, and their speed is faster. And they even said you can use their m.2 w/o THEIR heatsink, as long as you put it on the motherboard's M.2 heatsink. And all the motherboard heatsink is just regular metal. Noone else is using this nano carbon trick except Gigabyte
 
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