Review on GIGABYTE AORUS NVMe Gen4 M.2 1TB Gaming SSD: High Performance PCI-Express 4.0 with Copper Heat Spreader, Toshiba 3D NAND & DDR Cache Buffer by Christina Snyder

This review is from: Gigabyte AORUS NVMe Gen4 M.2 1TB PCI-Express 4.0 Interface High Performance GamingUPDATE: Purchased September 2, 2020 Total less than 6 months. Less than 10 SSD drives failed in the first 6 months and I will never buy them again. I'm talking hundreds of drives, not 50 or 60. Gigabyte support is still rubbish. YOU DO NOT PAY FOR RETURN SHIPPING. That's right, you buy their junk and then they ask you to replace it. I'm sure they will charge me for return shipping ie. H. After sending it back and forth 4-5 times while they claim it's ok. I won't stop buying their boards or GPUs but stay away from their SSDs so the speed was great, around 5GB/s. There was no temperature. The cooler weighs about 2 pounds. It's 100% FREE. All it does is HEAT TRAP. Any sane person would prefer a fan to dissipate heat rather than a giant fanless heatsink. This unit was mounted on a Gigabyte x570, AMD 3900X motherboard placed in a slot above the GPU and was running at almost 70C. I installed a $20 PCI-E SSD cooler and it's running now at around 45C. Passive heatsinks on PCIE devices are useless. These places do not have good airflow to remove heat from the device.