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Samsung shows the PS5 roughly love aside slapping a heatsink on the 980 Pro SSD

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Samsung effectively kicked off the 2d wave of PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs when it free the 980 Pro back in September last year. Patc other drives have semen along and claimed the performance crown since its found (such as the WD_Black SN850), it's still a good drive for anyone looking at performance most importantly. Including anyone that has a Sony PlayStation 5 and is looking to bolster the national drive space.

At to the lowest degree, it is if you buy a third-party cooler at the same time; the drive itself doesn't come with one. This generally isn't a problem on PCs, as motherboards tend to come with some chassis of cooling for NVMe SSDs. It's much of an issue for the PS5—the specs for the SSD motor colored for Sony's console requires that some form of cooling is required.

That has now changed though, as Samsung has released a original variant of the drive that comes with a heatsink. It's not bad looking for either, although it will spend its life hidden concealed for the vast majority of users.

The new interlingual rendition of the drive is called the Samsung 980 Pro with Heatsink, in example you're looking information technology. Only the 1TB and 2TB models are available with the heatsink, with the price going heavenward by $20 for the favor—which is in the main what you can expect to invite a lump of metal on top of your drive. That places the Samsung 980 Professional 1TB at $249 and the 2TB push on at $449.

Samsung's 980 Professional has been on sale for most of the year, with the 2TB model (without heatsink) down to $360, that's $70 to a lesser degree its MSRP. It'll be interesting to see if the heatsink models savor such savings.

Alan has been piece of writing about PC tech since earlier 3D graphics card game existed, and still vividly recalls having to fight with MS-DOS vindicatory to become games to load. He fondly remembers the killer combo of a Matrox Millenium and 3dfx Voodoo, and seeing Lara Croft in 3D for the low gear time. He's very glad computer hardware has advanced arsenic much as it has though, and is particularly happy when putting the latest M.2 NVMe SSDs, AMD processors, and laptops through and through their paces. He has a durable Conjuration: The Gathering compulsion but limits this to MTG Arena these days.