M.2 SSD Temperatures

[Doug_Dangger]

My 970 Evo on my laptop hits 67C.  I can feel it from the surface of my laptop palm rest.  When I upgraded to it, it didn't come with any heatsink.

I don't notice a performance hit.  Still fast AF.  Is that normal temperature or will it eventually fry itself.

 

The reason why I ask is that I can feel the warmth its radiating.  The previous crappy stick my Dell came with never got that warm.  Of course it was much slower.

[Doug_Dangger]

6 minutes ago, Benji said:

These temperatures are absolutely fine. Both my Toshiba BG3 (NVMe DRAM-less SSD that came with my laptop) and my Western Digital SN520 M.2 2242 throttle at around 82-83°C, while basically never reaching these temperatures. Not only that, but you also don't even feel them.

Also, the "heatsinks" that are on SSDs like the PCIe Gen 4 Aorus wouldn't fit in a laptop, not to mention that the type shield on the Samsung NVMe SSDs is usually a copper foil and serves as a mini-heatsink.

Probably just a badly thermally shielded area in the laptop and nothing to actually worry about. Laptops have to also successfully fulfill thermal norms. The video about the MacBook M1 "thermal mod" (which is just a thermal pad over the SoC connected to the bottom cover) from LTT talks about this as well. If it gets too hot it doesn't get released.

What laptop are we talking about?

Dell G3 3779

17.3" 1080p 60hz stock, overclocked to 90hz

8th gen i7

16gb ddr4

500GB EVO M.2

500GB 2.5 SSD

1060 6GB

[Doug_Dangger]

It's just really warn.  Not unbearable.  I guess it should be fine.