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Bruce66
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Basically I was doing a test run on my new mini optiplex 7060 with a 1 TB NVMe SSD.

   During a download of about 480 images from an SD card it cut off about halfway through the images the adapter was extremely hot to the touch and the SSD drive had discoloration over one of the chips.

      My question is should I be concerned about this overheating? Or did I waste my  money on a $28 finned heat sink with copper tubing?

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You don't need that beefy of a heatsink. That heatsink could cool most laptop CPUs comfortably. However, overheating drives are quite problematic and drive overheating can shorten the drive's lifespan and completely ruin it in some cases.

Was the 'discolored chip' small, or large? Small being the controller, if that overheats then the whole drive is cooked. And large is the NAND, which tends to run hot and likes to run hot. Sounds like a controller overheat to me. And no you didn't completely waste your money. Also, does the drive still work? If not it overheated and died, likely.

Hope I could help!

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No it was actually over the first big one right after that small chip. And ask for the heat sink it's only 9/10 of an inch in width, But you have a point The case itself is only an inch and an eighth it's a pretty small but powerful machine.

    One thing I did notice though it was downloading those pictures about twice as fast as my Dell

GS5E laptop I just bought last year.

   But it developed a terrible glitch and made it very annoying and Photoshop to do any editing as a screen would pop in and out like an old TV set if you know what I'm talking about.

   This one has the Intel i7 8700e

 6 core with 32 MB of RAM. 1TDDR

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As far as the drive still working I believe it is because I was able to open up the images that it did download. And the SSD that I was using in my drone still works because I just took some images of a thunderstorm this evening.

    But I haven't fired it back up I'm waiting for the heat sink to come in to avoid any further overheating.

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5 minutes ago, Bruce66 said:

As far as the drive still working I believe it is because I was able to open up the images that it did download. And the SSD that I was using in my drone still works because I just took some images of a thunderstorm this evening.

    But I haven't fired it back up I'm waiting for the heat sink to come in to avoid any further overheating.

Does it say its overheating in software or is it just hot to the touch? Many electronics can be hot to the touch and still work fine. Hot to humans is fine for computers.

2 minutes ago, Bruce66 said:

It doesn't say on the adapter it's one of them pocket adapters you can carry in your pocket that plugs into the USB-C mini, I do remember it saying that Port that I used was the faster Gen 2, it's been warm before but never that hot... 🤔

Would the heatsink fit in that enclosure? Id just get the usb adapter with a heatsink included.

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To the gentleman who were kind enough to respond. My little tweaks have made their anticipated improvement.

   For example the Wi-Fi that was barely running and cutting in and out now it's getting 295 megabits upload speed.

   As for the memory card heat sink I did have to grind off about a half a millimeter off of the fins for the lid to snap on. But when I did a download of 1900+ photos from an SD card... Well let's just say by the time I put my screwdriver back in my toolkit and put it back in the drawer it was done lol.

   Again thanks for all the tips.

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