Copying a large file - Kioxia Exceria Pro 2 TB

Copying a large file - Kioxia Exceria Pro 2 TB

First up is the comparison of the speed and temperatures during the file copying - using each kind of cooling. Below you can find the results on the faster NVMe drive (Kioxia Exceria Pro 2 TB), with copying of a 150 GB file (without the compressable data, so that's why the 3 GB/s was the maximum)

• Bare drive 

• Z690 Apex radiator

• be quiet! MC1

• be quiet! MC1 Pro

• Elecgear EL-80P

• Sabrent Rocket SB-HTSK

And the summary:

As you can see, the Kioxia Exceria Pro 2 TB is getting toasty without a cooler - 78 degrees is very hot and causes throttling. Even the smallest radiator (BQ MC1) makes it 14 degrees cooler. The rest of the pack is very close.

The results here are only for reference. You shouldn't judge the coolers based on that (as the differences are insignificant), except the one without any cooling. Please note that performance drops once the SSD has reached its max Temperature for a number of seconds (thermal throttling).