Review on SAMSUNG 970 EVO Plus SSD 2TB - High-Speed M.2 NVMe Interface Internal Solid State Drive with V-NAND Technology (MZ-V7S2T0B/AM) by Stanisaw Nader ᠌

Name: SAMSUNG 970 EVO Plus SSD 2TB - High-Speed M.2 NVMe Interface Internal Solid State Drive with V-NAND Technology (MZ-V7S2T0B/AM)
Item: SAMSUNG 970 EVO Plus SSD 2TB - High-Speed M.2 NVMe Interface Internal Solid State Drive with V-NAND Technology (MZ-V7S2T0B/AM)
Rating: 5

May 03, 2023

Good quality product, the price is commensurate with the quality.

The solution to the problem of overheating SSD approached with all seriousness. The paper stickers have been removed from the bottom and top of the SSD. Ali bought the most expensive COPPER passive radiator, with two heat pipes. I polished the copper sole with GOI paste to a mirror finish. I do not trust thermal pads - I used the best thermal paste for processors left after installing the Noctua air tower, thinly smeared the controller and two memory chips. In the middle, small chips do not provide contact with the sole, but I decided to neglect this. The result exceeded expectations - the temperature dropped by 7-10 degrees, the destruction of Windows system files stopped. The second temperature sensor is located just in the non-contacting chips, so with the previous aluminum radiator, the temperature difference of the sensors was 2 degrees, and now it is 6 degrees. In the most difficult tests, the temperature of the controller (and it is the hottest) did not exceed 49 degrees. The PC case is very ventilated. Copper has not been canceled!

Pros

This SSD is the undisputed leader for the foreseeable future, especially pleased with the volume, placed not only the system, but also a bunch of programs and libraries for creating music, and they are very resource-intensive.

Cons

Just the wildest heat, requiring extraordinary cooling measures. With a simple aluminum heatsink, the heat would destroy system files, so I constantly used command-line system file recovery utilities. There were cases when, in one evening of work, damage was found and repaired twice at the PC. And the last time, on February 28, 2022, 6 (six!) found damaged files were indicated in the log file. The reason, as it is now obvious, was the short-term warming up of the SSD due to the huge speeds of information transfer between the two SSDs in the PC.