Deciding on whether to buy a product like EK COOLING EK-M.2 NVMe Heatsink or perhaps WD Mainstream 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive? You’re in the right place as we’ll take you through all of the specs, features and look at the quality, pricing and reviews of both to help you make the decision on which one to go for.

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EK COOLING EK-M.2 NVMe Heatsink vs WD Mainstream 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive

EK COOLING EK-M.2 NVMe Heatsink specs

EK COOLING EK-M.2 NVMe Heatsink
 WD Mainstream 3.5

WD Mainstream 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive
Type: Solid-state drive heatsink

Type: Internal HDD

FEATURES

Capacity: 1 TB

Interface: SATA III

Other features: Passively cooled

Drive size: 3.5″

GENERAL

Spin speed: 7200 rpm

Device compatibility: – Windows
– Mac

Colour: Black & Nickel

FEATURES
Box contents: EK Cooling EK-M.2 NVMe Heatsink

Manufacturer’s guarantee: 2 years

Cache/buffer memory: 64 MB

GENERAL

System requirements: – Windows 7
– Windows 8
– Windows Vista
– Windows XP
– MAC OS X Mountain Lion, Lion or Snow LeopardW

Colour: Black

Box contents: WD Mainstream 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive

Dimensions: 147 x 101.6 x 26.1 mm (H x W x D)

Weight: 700 g

Manufacturer’s guarantee: 2 years

Price: £13

Price: £43.99

Number of Reviews:

Number of Reviews: 77

Review Score: 9.4 / 10

Review Score: 9.1 / 10


When deciding on whether to buy EK COOLING EK-M.2 NVMe Heatsink or WD Mainstream 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive, a very important consideration is the price. So we’re going to spend a bit of time looking at the price of both.

To start with, we looked at the price of the 77 products in the same category as EK COOLING EK-M.2 NVMe Heatsink, which is the PC fans and coolers category. Of these 77 products the average price was £71.97, the most expensive was £339.95 and the cheapest was just £3.95. We then looked at the price of the 140 in the same as the WD Mainstream 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive, which of course the average was £71.58, top price was £399.99 and cheapest £5.

We then looked specifically at the average price of products from Ek Cooling and WD, the average was £106.66 for Ek Cooling, £100.05 for WD. The max for each was £339.95/£349.99 and minimum was £7/£8.99

Price analysis of EK COOLING EK-M.2 NVMe Heatsink

Price analysis of WD Mainstream 3.5

  • EK COOLING EK-M.2 NVMe Heatsink
  • Avoid overheating with the help of the EK Cooling EK-M.2 NVMe Heatsink. It lowers the temperature of your SSD for tip-top performance.You can install the discreet heatsink easily and re-use it when you upgrade your SSD.
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  • WD Mainstream 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive
  • SATA III 6 Gb/s interface
  • Spin speed: 7200 rpm
  • 64 MB cache
  • Simple to install and use, this WD Mainstream 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive is designed around award-winning technology and is perfect for office and web applications. Ideal for your desktop PC, it is tested to provide premium performance. This 1 TB hard drive can store up to 250,000 songs or 200,000 photos, so there’s ample room for your multimedia. The Mainstream 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive has NoTouch Ramp Load technology to keep your hard drive in perfect working order. The recording head does not touch the disk, which helps to reduce wear to the recording head and to the disk. You will find it easy to upgrade your hard drive thanks to the Acronis True Image WD Edition software. This is available for download from the WD support site. This simple to use software allows you to copy all your data onto your new drive, making using your drive quick and easy.
  • Product codes: 718037815626

What’s better EK COOLING EK-M.2 NVMe Heatsink or WD Mainstream 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive?

There are obviously a number of differences between EK COOLING EK-M.2 NVMe Heatsink and WD Mainstream 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive, but there are several things that you can use when comparing the two. The first of these, which we’ve already covered, is price. Make sure you spend a bit of time deciding how much you are willing and able to spend on your product to really get a good idea if the £13 cost of EK COOLING EK-M.2 NVMe Heatsink is closer to the expectation you had than the £43.99 pricep point of WD Mainstream 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive.

Once you’ve nailed down everything there is to know on the price of both, the next step is to really study the reviews. Taking the time to read reviews of both will really help you to decide which is a better product between EK COOLING EK-M.2 NVMe Heatsink and WD Mainstream 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive. We looked at the reviews over at Currys PC World for both products and found that EK COOLING EK-M.2 NVMe Heatsink scores out of 10 from reviews. Whereas WD Mainstream 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive scores 9.1 out of 10 from 77 reviews.

It’s also really worthwhile spending the time to look at the key differences between the two products. For that you can use our comparison table about which looks at the main features of both products to give you a clear idea of where one product perhaps benefits over another. When comparing the two it’s a really good idea to have an idea in your mind of the key features that you need from your PC fans and coolers as this will help you to narrow down the products that do or don’t meet your criteria.



EK COOLING EK-M.2 NVMe Heatsink



Rating:
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