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Samsung 980 Pro with Heatsink 1TB Review

Simon Crisp July 20, 2022 Featured Tech Reviews, Reviews, SSD Drives

We took note of the drive’s temperature during some of our benchmarking runs. The heatsink works well enough as the hottest the drive got was 54° C when being pushed very hard during the Performance Stability test. For the bulk of our testing the temperature averaged around 40° C, comfortably below the maximum operating temperature of 70C.

Heatsink vs non-heatsink 980 Pro

We also compared the Heatsink version of the SSD 980 PRO against the standard drive. The heatsink version did keep the drive cooler in our tests to varying degrees, especially when it was being pushed. For example, the heatsink version was 12 degrees cooler during the read tests in CrystalDisKMark 8's Peak Performance Profile benchmark and 11 degrees cooler during the writes tests. These are useful reductions if you are installing the drive in a compact PC or PS5.

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