M.2 SSD Cooling

[lithium_6]

Hi guys, I recently purchase a XPG Storm SSD M.2 heatsink. I read some good reviews online and I found a couple of videos on YouTube. 

 

I'm using the cooler on a Kingston hyperx and after running a few stress tests I noticed 5°C drop, from ~71C to ~66C. The SSD comes with a sticker on top. 

 

My question is, does removing that sticker can help in a better heat transfer between the SSD and the heatsink? Or will make it worst? The heatsink comes with a thermal pad of the same lenght of the SSD. 

 

I'm not really worried about losing the warranty, I live in Mexico and is pretty hard to get any customer support from manufacturers. 

 

Cheers. 

 

[Derrk]

it would probably help, but not by much. getting some airflow with a small fan would help the most

[RickH]

You never said what temp your SSD was in the first place. SSDs have a very wide temp range. Sandisk says up to 70c is doable... 

 

https://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/16376/

[Guest]

Actually, Flash has longer longevity when it is hot, so M.2 heatsinks, if they actually did anything, would hinder the life span a little bit. Don't worry about the temperatures, they are high but nothing out of the ordinary. 

[lithium_6]

4 minutes ago, RickH said:

You never said what temp your SSD was in the first place. SSDs have a very wide temp range. Sandisk says up to 70c is doable... 

 

https://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/16376/

My bad, kingston has an operating temperature from 0-70C

[lithium_6]

5 minutes ago, Derrk said:

it would probably help, but not by much. getting some airflow with a small fan would help the most

The heatsink is pretty nice, comes with a small fan to dissipate heat. 

[lithium_6]

1 minute ago, Konrad_K said:

Actually, Flash has longer longevity when it is hot, so M.2 heatsinks, if they actually did anything, would hinder the life span a little bit. Don't worry about the temperatures, they are high but nothing out of the ordinary. 

My concern was that kingston rates the SSD from 0-70C and I was hitting ~70 under load. I thought that higher temperatures will hurt the lifespan and performance of the SSD. 

[WereCat]

It's useless. 

You don't want to cool SSD NAND, you want to cool the controller. 

Cooling the NAND actually reduces the performance

[Derrk]

2 minutes ago, Lord.Humungus said:

My concern was that kingston rates the SSD from 0-70C and I was hitting ~70 under load. I thought that higher temperatures will hurt the lifespan and performance of the SSD. 

It wont hurt the SSD, at most it will just thermal throttle

[lithium_6]

3 minutes ago, WereCat said:

It's useless. 

You don't want to cool SSD NAND, you want to cool the controller. 

Cooling the NAND actually reduces the performance

So, if I use the thermal pad to redirect the heat away from the controller it would be better. 

[lithium_6]

Thanks a lot I will redirect my effort to the airflow inside the case. 

[manikyath]

1 hour ago, Konrad_K said:

Actually, Flash has longer longevity when it is hot, so M.2 heatsinks, if they actually did anything, would hinder the life span a little bit. Don't worry about the temperatures, they are high but nothing out of the ordinary. 

 

1 hour ago, WereCat said:

It's useless. 

You don't want to cool SSD NAND, you want to cool the controller. 

Cooling the NAND actually reduces the performance

these.

 

if you insist, put a thermal pad on the controller, and let it do its thing.

 

besides that, it's actually surprisingly hard to make SSDs thermal throttle in real world scenarios.