Nvme maybe throttling

[nntantidakis]

Hello

I have Msi Gaming7 X99a  coupled with a Samsung 960Evo

My problem is that after some hours of usage, if i copy files from this drive, to this drive, the speed goes like 1gb/s - 100mb/s - 1gb/s - 100mb/s. From Hardware monitor i saw that the temperatures was : Temperature 1 : 63, Temperature 2 : 86.

 

Also my case has a proper setup of airflow, but the drive sits near the msi gaming x 1060 graphics card.

Unfortunately due to my job, this disk receives a lot of continuously I/O (wsl, Mysql/Mssql databases etc).

Is this caused by Thermal throttle? if yes what i must do?

 

Thanks in advance

 

[Jurrunio]

3 minutes ago, nntantidakis said:

Is this caused by Thermal throttle?

could be

 

3 minutes ago, nntantidakis said:

if yes what i must do?

you should have other M.2 slots elsewhere. You can also stick heatsink blocks onto the SSD

[nntantidakis]

8 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

you should have other M.2 slots elsewhere

This MB has only one nvme slot... 

[Jurrunio]

1 hour ago, nntantidakis said:

This MB has only one nvme slot... 

that sucks, what if you speed up the GPU's fan under heavy I/O load?

 

1 hour ago, CUDAcores89 said:

Remember, thr NAND flash on the SSD actually functions better under high temperatures. Only the Controller itself is in need of active cooling.

Samsung gave a 0-70c rating for this SSD, 86C is far from ideal.

@nntantidakis the rating is based on SMART reported data and not all sensors present on the SSD, you can check that with Crystaldiskinfo

[nntantidakis]

Is there any program that will help me measure the throttle?