Pcie 4 nvme m.2 gaming part time mining rig

[Chrismike]

Hi guys so.... sorry this may be too long, main question at the bottom. But just for context: my aorus gen4 1tb ssd m.2 just died. 3months old  

 

my build: aorus x570 pro wifi atx board ryzen 5 and 3070 running on custom loop. Gpu and cpu aren’t normally OCd and their temps are peaking at 50c with load.
 

Even though it’s liquid cooled, case still has good airflow inside. It has 2 bottom fans blowing fresh air in fixed at 1200rpm. 2 rad fans up top are set to have a minimum rpm of 600rpm and increases depending on cpu temp. 1 rear fan continously exhausts air as well at a fixed 1200rpm. 2 rad fans at the front same fan curve as the top rad but fans are triggered by gpu temp. So like i said, good airflow inside the case. 
temp inside the case ranges about 40c maybe even less, case panel is always room temp. And when i open the panel it’s just a bit warmer than ambient. Case is a meshify c.  Ambient temp is about 30c at night. But becomes 24 when I’m inside the room during daytime. 
 

 Computer is basically used for office apps like word/powerpoint and teams during day time (while computer is mining), a bit of gaming in the afternoon(no longer mining), and finally mines all through the night. This has been its routine for the last 3months. 

 

I regularly monitor my temps for my storage devices. Both my aorus gen4 nvme ssds (1tb and 2tb) idles at about 39-47c. Peaks at 67c during benchmark if i remember correctly. Maintains about 60c during gaming. I believe those are well within its op range regardless if the computer is running non stop or not.

 

I also have an hdd used for downloads and storing of all my documents. I also forwarded my cloud files syncing to my hdd as well (utilizing mklink in cmd) to minimize read/writes on my ssds. 
 

basically both my ssds are just for gaming files and OS boot drive. All apps and windows are installed in my 1tb nvme. 
 

both my m.2s have their heat spreaders attched still, with a thermal pad on top with a heatsink. Heatsink came with my mobo. (This may trigger a debate, but let’s just drop the heat spreader subject for now, unless you really think it was the main cause of its demise).

 

then, my primary 1tb died. My computer first crashed when i woke it up yesterday morning. I know it was running fine before i woke it because i was monitoring my mining through my phone and was running fine, before actually touching my computer to wake it up. I brushed it off as windows being windows.

 

then it crashed the second time. But this time it sent a crash report to windows before actually restarting. During boot up, it just stopped working. And finally declaring it dead at time 10:08utc

edit- a thought just occurred to me. Is mining bad for an m.2 ssd? I mean it constantly reads and writes.....so.... could it have something to do with it?

 

TL/DR: are nvme m.2 ssds not designed to operate non stop even if it’s just on idle most of the time? or am i just over thinking stuff and simply have a faulty ssd? I estimate that the drive only had about 10TBW +/- 5TB before failing (all though it was operating non stop and being a boot drive)

 

For those who read it all....

[Calidus]

Someone else can chime in if they no better but from my understanding of ssds, the temperature even though high doesn't go near the limits so I doubt that was the cause and the TBW should be way higher then what you have written to it. So sounds like it was faulty, I'd RMA it.

 

I dunno about the whole heat spreader situation, these drives come with a copper based one right? If so are you using another one on top of that? If not and it's just your motherboards m.2 heatsinks, I don't think that's an issue either.

[Chrismike]

Yeah great!!!! Appreciate it. I was really hoping it’s just a faulty one. I mean it just kind of sucks. It will be replaced, ye, but the hassle of it tho. Had to re arrange my storage and running on my hdd now that used to be my storage for my ps4......it. Is. Slow. I’m just really frustrated.

[Umeshwarnath]

Let me ask you this, was the drive in the slot right underneath your 3070? Or on the slot on top?

[Chrismike]

13 hours ago, Umeshwarnath said:

Let me ask you this, was the drive in the slot right underneath your 3070? Or on the slot on top?

Neitheir. Both are installed on either side of it. My gpu has a waterblock installed making it slimmer than usual. System temp just hovers around 42c. Gpu temps’s at 41 most of the time and 37 at idle. Pcie x16 temp stays ay 49-51 regardless of gpu temp (overclocked or not). Both m.2 just hovers around 47-49 at idle. During gaming stays most of the time at 53. It spikes from time to time to 63 when in use but it doesn’t stay there. When the ssds were new, i tried to benchmark it 3 times in a row, crystaldiskmark, it did reach 67c. But that was like last december still. And I didn’t benchmark it since.