Ok here is my thoughts.
No thermal analysis test, I guess this is for the reasons mentioned at start, how do you test it fairly? Maybe test it on the lowest end board you can find and stick it under a slab pretending to be a heatsink, probably not a great result, but press the point SSD manufacturers need to be shipping heat sinks on high wattage drives.
I noticed the fsync graph, something I dont recall noticing before on older reviews, I had 2 observations from this interesting test. (a) my OS drive did very badly on it (980 pro), the OS is important in this area as it does many fsync writes for registry and logs, but perhaps even more interesting the top half a dozen or so drives were also drives that had high idle power so wake up latency may be having a bearing. So are some vendors intentionally disabling low power states to get better performance?
Dont like the way the NAND storage industry is going, its like they have adopted a enterprise attitude where heat and power consumption dont matter, this drive hitting 15W is suddenly making my enterprise DC P4600 seem an efficiency king in comparison.
