News Corsair's MP600 Pro NH SSDs: Big Performance, Laptop-Sized Package

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Step 1: Take any m.2 SSD
Step 2: Remove the cosmetic heatsink (and pass those BoM savings onto yourself by raising RRP)
Step 3: "OMG it's a brand new laptop drive variant!!1"

NAND dies should not have heatsinks attached, they need elevated operating temperature for longevity and heatsinks just means they waste power (and burn block erase cycles generating heat) chasing a temperature setpoint they can no longer reach.
SSD controllers do not thermal throttle except under constant read/write workloads, which when actually tested mean you need to be copying files of several hundred GB in size before you would ever see thermal throttling from an unsinked controller in real world usage.