Very hot m.2 drive! help?!

[RyanFawcett]

So my Samsung 850 evo 500gb m.2 ssd is running at 68°c-73°c, Samsung's website states that these drives can operate between 0°c-70°c.

Im a little worried... any ideas anyone? 

 

Thankyou!

[gazabi]

1 minute ago, RyanFawcett said:

So my Samsung 850 evo 500gb m.2 ssd is running at 68°c-73°c, Samsung's website states that these drives can operate between 0°c-70°c.

Im a little worried... any ideas anyone? 

 

Thankyou!

I believe its normal, reviews show that this drive can get even hotter.

This review shows it:

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Product-Review-Samsung-950-Pro-512GB-M-2-Drive-725/

[KemoKa]

Samsung M.2 SSDs get hot. It is known.

Supposedly it doesn't affect the operation or lifespan of the drive, but if you're worried, you can get little heatsinks for the NAND cells and the controller.

[RyanFawcett]

Wow! upwards of 115°c on a drive... makes me feel slightly better haha

 

My drive is on the back of my motherboard, inside a Silverstone SG13, so literally zero airflow back there. What would you guys suggest? just some thermal pads?

[Guest]

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[Guest]

but don't worry about it. 

[kirashi]

46 minutes ago, RyanFawcett said:

So my Samsung 850 evo 500gb m.2 ssd is running at 68°c-73°c, Samsung's website states that these drives can operate between 0°c-70°c.

Im a little worried... any ideas anyone? 

 

Thankyou!

Can confirm what others have already done so on this thread. mSata and M.2 drives get HOT, even if they're just idling sometimes.

I've got a Crucial MX200 500GB mSata drive in my 2012 Samsung Series 9 laptop, and it gets up to around 60-90*C regularly, even with the cooling pad connecting it to the laptop's all-aluminium body. Just the nature of the game.

[ybriK]

Watercool it.

[Guest]

Normal. My SanDisk SSD that is 2.5" runs at 80-90 all the time and the 950 Pro's are known to be toasty.

[ybriK]

42 minutes ago, TheCovertCamper said:

Normal. My SanDisk SSD that is 2.5" runs at 80-90 all the time and the 950 Pro's are known to be toasty.

That doesn't seem normal, did you have a very small case and a hot OC'd GPU? My SSD never hit 50C even on a hot day.

 

"32ºF to 158ºF (0ºC to 70 ºC)"

https://www.sandisk.com.au/home/ssd/ssd-plus

[Guest]

11 minutes ago, ybriK said:

That doesn't seem normal, did you have a very small case and a hot OC'd GPU? My SSD never hit 50C even on a hot day.

 

"32ºF to 158ºF (0ºC to 70 ºC)"

https://www.sandisk.com.au/home/ssd/ssd-plus

No, it's in the SSD bracket on the back of the computer and it's an Ultra II.

[Guest]

M.2 drives as a general thing do run hot. SATA run about what you're seeing - 55-75c while PCIe/NVME versions are often between 90-115c - If you open a good quality laptop, chances are there are termal pads on the NVME drives similar to the ones you'll find on VRAM chips on a GPU. PCI based NVME drives use rather large heatsinks to disipate this heat (pictured below)
 

[Roawoao]

Note the spec usually for the ambient temperature usually not the die temperature it reports. Although I highly doubt it will operate well at 70degC ambient as the throttling would be intense at that starting temp. M.2 drives do get very hot this is just due to the form factor. I'd use a heat spreader over the controller if your worried about it. Heat does technically reduce reliability.

[Kenneth0901]

auto shutdown when overhot. Is it normal?

[Kenneth0901]

Not normal. It auto shutdown everywhen overheat.

[NineEyeRon]

I have a Corsair MP300, runs at about 60-63C in a location with good airflow and no heatsink. I thought that was hot but I did some write speed tests and found no (significant) difference between advertised, cool and hot speeds.