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Got a huge system upgrade today, the drive is blistering fast. Should I get an M.2 heatsink? I know little about NVMe drives since I haven't really owned or used them before so I don't know if 61C is considered acceptable.

 

(I had two Crucial P1s which had a freezing issue, which I thought was my motherboard so I returned them.)

  1. Spotty

    Spotty

    61C is fine for NVMe drives. They tend to run a little hot and will get hotter the more they're used. With "normal" use you should be fine, but if you're planning on doing lots of large, long writes to the drive (like 4k video files and such) then you might want to consider a heatsink as the drives will throttle transfer speed once they reach a certain temperature. Depends on the drive but usually between 80-100°C IIRC.

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