It's rare to find real-world workloads that stress SSDs like these synthetic benchmarks. It's mostly a problem with synthetic benchmarks. Heatsinks like the bi

It's rare to find real-world workloads that stress SSDs like these synthetic benchmarks. It's mostly a problem with synthetic benchmarks. Heatsinks like the big chunk of metal in that video are only really good for delaying thermal throttling by adding extra thermal mass. The drive will still hit 100C and still throttle if you push it hard enough. Only airflow will remove heat from the drive. If someone has workloads that are so consistently intense that throttling is causing an impact, they probably shouldn't be using consumer drives anyway. Server grade drives are designed for sustained workloads. When your drive can sustain 7GB/sec read speeds and 5GB/sec write speeds, you can read an entire 1TB drive in about 2.5 minutes and write the entire drive in 3.5 minutes. Throttling will kick in after a minute or two, but the bigger problem is that if you're doing this consistently you're going to exhaust the drive's 600TBW write endurance very quickly. In theory, if throttling wasn't an issue you could consume the entire drive's write endurance in a matter of days. If you're doing that level of writing, it's time to upgrade to more appropriate hardware.