Here are the specifications of the PC used for the tests: Our test rig is based on the latest Ryzen 2nd Gen (Zen 2 microarchitecture) platform, which shouldn’t cause any performance bottlenecks since the new X570 platform is inherently over-engineered to support the faster PCI-E 4.0 standard. The ambient temperature was maintained at 22☌ for consistency.
Idle drive temperatures were recorded prior to the torture tests, followed by maximum temperatures for each run. We subjected the drive to three continuous runs of Crystal Disk Mark 6 per cooling method, each lasting roughly five minutes.
The drive was installed in the same high-bandwidth M.2 slot right above the GPU to maintain consistency between runs. We used the Samsung PM981 NVMe SSD in our thermal torture tests.
