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The WD Black was delivered today and is now the C drive and after an hour it is only at 31C. Seems I won't be needing any extra heatsink or cooling.
The WD Black was delivered today and is now the C drive and after an hour it is only at 31C. Seems I won't be needing any extra heatsink or cooling.
Thanks for the advice everyone.
Yes general opinion is that it seems these drives just run hotter.Those are pretty much normal for NVME drives.
I did install it in the slot with the heatsink that happens to be furthest away from the GPU, although there's not much difference in space maybe an inch.[That said, if at all possible always install the drive in the slot furthest away for the GPU.
Look at reviews of the p5 and if they indicate major throttle issues then put a heatsink.
Maybe by putting on a heatsink you will blow up the 5 year warranty if you remove the sticker on the ssd.
These modern m.2 drives are made to be put straight on a heatsink the sticker will make no difference whatsoever to the heat dissapation ability of a tight fitted heatsink.
Also this goes to anybody when you read reviews on Shopping sites about m.2's, you read about people who put a Pci 4.0 m.2 ssd into their laptop but did not put a heatsink on it & it blew it up within a month !
That is something to think about before deciding weather you need a heatsink on modern m.2 drives.
There's faulty logic going here in thinking no one realizes how hot a "PCi 4.0 system" may get or that the manufacturer of the drive didn't account for the heat they might put out.
There's also the faulty logic of thinking a PCI 3.0 system could run a PCI 4.0 NVME drive at 4.0 speeds.
Again, worrying about something that there's no need to worry about. Or relying on some internet FUD as the gospel of all things.
While I don't have 4.0 NVME drives in my system I do have 2 NVME drives in my system and not a ton of fans or customized heatsinks on either of the drives. Result still a no drive issues or degradation