Samsung shows the PS5 some love by slapping a heatsink on the 980 Pro SSD

Samsung properly kicked off the second wave of PCIe 4. NVMe SSDs when it produced the 980 Pro back again in September final calendar year. Though other drives have occur alongside and claimed the functionality crown considering the fact that its launch (such as the WD_Black SN850), it’s nonetheless a great push for any person searching at performance initially and foremost. Including everyone that has a Sony PlayStation 5 and is on the lookout to bolster the inside travel room.

At the very least, it is if you get a 3rd-party cooler at the identical time the drive alone doesn’t arrive with one. This frequently isn’t really a dilemma on PCs, as motherboards tend to appear with some type of cooling for NVMe SSDs. It can be far more of an challenge for the PS5—the specs for the SSD travel bay for Sony’s console needs that some type of cooling is required. 

That has now adjusted nevertheless, as Samsung has produced a new model of the travel that will come with a heatsink. It can be not terrible wanting possibly, despite the fact that it will spend its life hidden out of sight for the vast vast majority of end users. 

The new model of the travel is called the Samsung 980 Pro with Heatsink, in scenario you’re hunting for it. Only the 1TB and 2TB versions are accessible with the heatsink, with the price tag going up by $20 for the privilege—which is typically what you can count on to pay back for a lump of metal on top of your generate. That locations the Samsung 980 Professional 1TB at $249 and the 2TB drive at $449.

Samsung’s 980 Pro has been on sale for most of the yr, with the 2TB model (with out heatsink) down to $360, that’s $70 much less than its MSRP. It’s going to be attention-grabbing to see if the heatsink types enjoy this sort of cost savings.