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Crucial T500 2TB PCIe Gen4 SSD Review

Simon Crisp October 31, 2023 Featured Tech Reviews, Reviews, SSD Drives, Tech News

We took note of the drive’s temperature during some of our benchmarking runs.

Crucial sent us the standard drive to review (there is a heat sink-equipped version too). The standard drive does need some form of third-party heatsink or a motherboard cooling solution as it tends to run hot when pushed hard.

We ran a couple of tests without a heat sink just to see what would happen. Running the ATTO benchmark the drive reached 69° C and when running the default CrystalDiskMark 8 test it reached 73° C (reads) and 77° C (writes). But despite this, we didn't appear to see any throttle back issues during these tests

We did our standard testing using the hefty built-in heatsink on our Gigabyte AORUS X670E Xtreme motherboard. During our benchmarking runs, the hottest the drive got was 38° C during the CrystalDiskMark 8 Write test and the 0 fill Write test. For the non-4 K tests the drive averaged 34° while for the 4K-based tests, the average was 31°C.

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