Review on Samsung 980 PRO 500GB M.2 SSD MZ-V8P500BW by Stanisaw Chmielewski ᠌

Here are the dimensions of the elements on the board: Controller: 17x17 mm DRAM: 14x8mm NAND: 18x14mm (each chip) To level the surface, it is necessary to use different thicknesses of thermal pads: 0.5 (for NAND) and 1.0 mm (on DRAM and Controller). In principle, you can save a little and put it only on the controller, since NAND works fine if it heats up. The latest version of HWiNFO64 shows not two, but three sensors on the 980 Pro. The third heats up the most (probably this is the controller). On my disk, when running CrystalDiskMark v8.0.4, the maximum temperature was 72 degrees (!) in Full Performance Mode (without it - a maximum of 63 degrees). I used thermal pads that I had left over from servicing video cards: Thermal Gryzzly Minus 8 Pad (on NAND) and GELID GP-Extreme (controller and DRAM). I experimented with forcing PCIe GEN4 in the BIOS for the M.2 slot with and without SSD (in Auto mode), but I did not understand if there was a significant difference. Some performance with 4K blocks adds FPM, but at the cost of heat. The use of a heatsink and a thermal pad on the controller is mandatory in this case! All measurements were taken on an ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero board with an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X processor.