SAMSUNG 980 PRO SSD with Heatsink 1TB PCIe Gen 4 NVMe M.2 Internal Solid State Drive, Heat Control, Max Speed, PS5 Compatible, MZ-V8P1T0CW

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I was surprised to read some of the reviews on this ... Samsung is normally solid as a rock. I've used it routinely for my PC's, I didn't even think twice about it. When I went to write this review - that's when I saw others with negative reviews about it.I read about the firmware failures. I'm not sure what years those were made... because I just did a review on every 970/980 SSD I own... none of them had bad firmware on it. If you're using something like "Driver Easy" or whatnot to ensure you're always running the latest drivers on the PC - it's not an issue I think. It wasn't for me. Every drive was already running the latest firmware and I've been buying 970 and 980 drives since 2019.In my experience, the NVME drives from Samsung are solid as a rock and perform flawlessly. That's been the case with this one for my PS5. I put it in this past weekend and it fired up without issue. I didn't even look at the year or place of origin for manufacture. It just struck me like every other 980 drive I've ever purchased except this one has a nice little aluminum/zinc heat sink on it that is Samsung branded (more on the heat sink in a minute - I'm not sure exactly what it does.)It went in without a hiccup. Granted - you have to know what you're doing - but if you've built a PC before or have any kind of clue, this won't be hard. Pop a side off, get out a screwdriver for PC builds, pop the expansion slot open, slot it, put it down again (there is a screw and a spacer in the PS5 already but you will need to move the post from the five to the three inch marker), and then close her up. Truly easy... takes like 10 minutes if you have a clue.The heatsink is low form factor/profile - so it fits like a glove. It's not entirely clear to me how or why the heatsink is necessary. There's no circulation in the little bay that the chip sits in - so it's not clear to me how heat is being dissipated. Moreover, you don't put any kind of thermal paste on anything, nor use a heat transfer foam liner like you will on some installs where there is a metal casing (like on a GPU).That said - everyone makes a BFD about having a heat sink because God forbid you don't have one - the PS5 will explode or something... doubtful... but ok. So anyways... it slots right in, and you close up the lid on it, and it's sitting in there happy as a clam. I honestly don't know what the heat sink does. My SSD's on my PC don't have a heatsink and they rarely go above 45C or so... given the throttling happens at 80 degrees... I'd think you'd see case deformation on that PS5 case before you'd see your SSD smoking fire inside the little sealed area. And again, with that heat sink on - but no vent - not sure to me where the hell the heat is going other than into the sink which I suspect you're just relying on the laws of thermodynamics to keep the chip at like 50-60 degrees C... because there is no venting.I fired mine up with zero difficulties after install.In terms of performance - there is no measurable performance between the NVME and the onboard memory on the console - which I suspect is probably also a Samsung NVME card. Speed and transfer seem comparable to onboard... and I even sent files back and forth between the SSD and the console memory... no hiccups.In short - 179 bucks for 2TB. Buy it. 10 minutes after opening the package... you'll have triple the memory you have on your machine right now.I mean it's a no-brainer...