Corsair MP700 PCIe 5 SSDs without a heatsink overheat and end up shutting down

The first PCI Express 5.0 compliant SSDs they are coming to the market. One of the first units available, and which also competes with the high-end of these products, is the Corsair MP700 SSD released just a week ago. This SSD that reaches 10,000MB/s it has finally been released without a heatsink, but it is not advisable to use it without one. Several means that have analyzed this SSD (without heatsink) have seen how after a little more than two minutes it has turned off or was starting to cause errors.

Specifically, when demanding a little performance in both reading and writing, have seen how the unit It has been turned off, requiring a restart of the computer to continue working. Since this unit has a Phison E26 controllerfrom Phison have contacted Tom’s Hardware to warn that your engineers are already aware of this problemand that they have already solved it, but that the new firmware version that adjusts thermal throttling it has to go through a strict validation process before it can be released to upgrade existing units.

It also reminds us that even though the Corsair PM700 drive is available without heatsinkthis option is to include it in any of the solutions with cooling (active or passive) that include the compatible motherboards with M.2 PCIe 5.0 SSD disks and that if the motherboard itself does not include one, it is highly recommend installing a heat sinkor rather as we can verify obligatory.

With this we can verify, as has been said on other occasions, that you will need a heatsink with active cooling or a good passive heatsink to be able to lower the operating temperature in these M.2 SSD drives with PCIe 5.0 interface, where most are dominated by this controller Phison E26.

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