I recently crafted a video on whether you should peel the sticker off your NVMe SSD ([ Ссылка ]). In that video, someone left a comment suggesting you could also just leave the heatsinks off and get better temperatures. I thought that was a curious concept and so I wanted to test it for myself. So in this video I take two different motherboards and test both the WD_Black SN850 ([ Ссылка ]) and Crucial P5 Plus ([ Ссылка ]) and test them both with and without heatsinks on different motherboards.

I used CrystalDiskMark with several passes in both setups to test and check for reasonable use cases. I also was already running the machines in different ways to be similar to daily use so I could give a fair test. The results are surprising.

There are obviously a lot of different heatsink designs out there. Neither of the drives I tested had them built onto the drive, instead I'm relying on the motherboard heatsinks and those vary wildly. But it's still an interesting test.

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Obviously there are some caveats to these tests. The results will vary from system to system, depending on how many fans you have, the quality of your motherboard, your environmental temps and the generation of drive you're using.

Both the Crucial P5 Plus and WD_Black SN850 are PCIe gen 4 drives, running on Intel Z790 systems at x4 PCIe lanes. The motherboards are decent and have good heatsinks too. Older gen drives might not run as hot. Drives installed at the bottom of the motherboard, closer to the case fans might not be as hot.

Hardware used in these tests:
Machine 1 (Crucial P5 Plus)
Lian Li Lancool 216 RGB [ Ссылка ]
Motherboard - Gigabyte Aorus Z790 Elite AX [ Ссылка ]
CPU - Intel Core i5-13600K
RAM - 32GB Kingston Fury Beast DDR5 6000Mhz RAM
PSU - NZXT C1200 Gold [ Ссылка ]
GPU - Gigabyte RTX 4070 TI 12G OC [ Ссылка ]
AIO - Corsair H150i Elite LCD [ Ссылка ]
RGB - Lian Li Strimer V2 Plus 600 watt 12VHPWR RGB cables [ Ссылка ]
Lian Li Strimer Plus V2 [ Ссылка ]
NVMe - Crucial P5 Plus
Fans - Lian Li P28 [ Ссылка ]

Machine 2 (WD_Black SN850)
Asus ROG STRIX Z790-A GAMING WIFI D4 motherboard ([ Ссылка ])
Intel Core i9-13900K CPU
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Lian Li Dynamic Evo ([ Ссылка ])
Corsair HX1500i PSU ([ Ссылка ])
NZXT Kraken Z73 ([ Ссылка ])
Lian Li SL120 V2 fans ([ Ссылка ])
Asus Strix RTX 4090 white edition

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