970 EVO Plus drive overheating

[Garlic]

I am running a Samsung 970 EVO Plus on an ASRock Phantom Gaming Z390 itx mobo, and I keep getting alerts about my SSD running too hot (50 C). The drive is mounted in the M.2_2 slot, the one with the heat sink, and I have 660p in the M.2_1 slot on the back side of the mobo that is running smooth and cool. At first I thought that the drive was being heated up my excess heat from the CPU, but it is actually running hotter than the CPU 90% of the time.

 

Will temps of 50C be a danger for my drive? And if so, what can I do about it? Spread thermal paste between the thermal pad and the heat sink? Will that even work?

[Jurrunio]

50C isn't hot at all for an SSD under load. if it's doing that at idle, see if ramping up the graphics card's fans help

[sabre350Z]

Try adding some casefans to get more airflow over the heatsink?

[SupaKomputa]

some heatsink don't make a proper contact with the drive, i say you either don't use the heatsink or you fix the thermal padding.

m.2 ssd should be good without one anyway.

[Firewrath9]

ssds are designed for up to 70c, you're fine. Thermal paste should help a little, esp. if there  are no pads currently.

[Vishera]

SSDs like to run hot,low temperatures harm SSDs,

In case the micro-controller is thermal throttling just put a little heatsink on it,the rest of the SSD will be harmed if running it at low temperatures.

[Kilrah]

What software is giving you the warning? Likely isn't designed for use with SSDs.

I have the same mobo, the CPU won't heat up your SSD but the cooler is actually mainly for the chipset that's right under it, which will heat up

I actually haven't mounted the part that goes on to of the SSD to improve airflow.

 

There's a saying that often the mobo-supplied SSD heat sinks are actually heat traps... 

[Vishera]

13 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

What software is giving you the warning? Likely isn't designed for use with SSDs.

I have the same mobo, the CPU won't heat up your SSD but the cooler is actually mainly for the chipset that's right under it, which will heat up

I actually haven't mounted the part that goes on to of the SSD to improve airflow.

 

There's a saying that often the mobo-supplied SSD heat sinks are actually heat traps... 

Unlike CPUs and GPUs,Low temperatures KILL SSDs

[Kilrah]

Chill out, it's only going to run at 60 instead of 80 and throttling... And no 10°C won't make it fail in any appreciably quicker timeframe. Also there's a very serious lack of actual data backing that "low temperature is bad" argument.

[Garlic]

I get the warning from unraid, and it is aware that the drive is an SSD. I´ll disable the warning for now, and not worry about it unless the temps start rising. Thanks!