Is Cooling necessary on M.2 SSD?

[STR]

Well, I've found one way to cool a M.2 drive...an EVGA GTX 1080 Ti. Card only runs at 50-55c, so the exhaust tends to *cool* my SSDs and keep them from going over 48 or so, about 3-5 degrees less than they did with my GTX 970 blower card.

Downside: this solution is a bit pricier than a couple of stick on heatsinks.
Upside: You could toss in the heatsinks and barely notice the increase in your shopping cart total.

 

[Happy Hopping]

Instead of a video card, you do know they sell PCI E card, in which the card itself is nothing but 2 x giant fans

 

[STR]

Instead of a video card, you do know they sell PCI E card, in which the card itself is nothing but 2 x giant fans

Lemme check how many PCIe slots I have left...

 

[Happy Hopping]

All In One (rad/pump/waterblock)

Well this is HardOCP, so watersports?
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if it were watersport, it should bring the temperature down further

 

[Skylinestar]

I would love to install an M2 drive but the slot is just under the graphics card. My room ambient temperature is 95F and I'm worried it will be detrimental to an M2 drive if it's designed in such a bad spot on a mobo.
Should I be worried?

 

[Happy Hopping]

to me, the risk of a SSD failure is very worrisome. And since the cost to prevent it is quite low, and that those heatsink is easy to install, I am in the midst of digging the memory pack brand or equivalent to make it happen

 

[STR]

I would love to install an M2 drive but the slot is just under the graphics card. My room ambient temperature is 95F and I'm worried it will be detrimental to an M2 drive if it's designed in such a bad spot on a mobo.
Should I be worried?

Let me put it this way: no matter what temperature, a M.2 SSD is still less likely to fail than a spinning hard drive in the same case.

Also, does your board support using your GPU on the 2nd or 3rd PCIe x 16 slot? The more space between those components the cooler the temps.

 

[vegeta535]

I would love to install an M2 drive but the slot is just under the graphics card. My room ambient temperature is 95F and I'm worried it will be detrimental to an M2 drive if it's designed in such a bad spot on a mobo.
Should I be worried?

How do you live/work in a room that is 95F @.@

 

[Happy Hopping]

go w/ what STR said. I did the same thing. Not for m.2 reason, but because my giant CPU fan blocks the 1st PCI e x 16, so I use my 2nd PCI e x 16 slot

 

[Happy Hopping]

Anyhoo, say you have a dual fan on your video card, and your fan is blowing air next to your m.2 SSD, like the above ASRock photo. Is the fans on your video card blowing hot air towards your M.2? because the fan should circulating air, and what comes out, should be hot air. If so, doesn't that makes your m.2 hotter?

 

[STR]

Anyhoo, say you have a dual fan on your video card, and your fan is blowing air next to your m.2 SSD, like the above ASRock photo. Is the fans on your video card blowing hot air towards your M.2? because the fan should circulating air, and what comes out, should be hot air. If so, doesn't that makes your m.2 hotter?

Depends on how hot the air coming from the GPU is. If your GPU stays at 50c (like mine), the air coming off the card is probably about 40c. 40c air will still cool a SSD running at 50c.

25c air will cool a SSD better, but that doesn't mean the GPU is making things hotter.

 

[Skylinestar]

How do you live/work in a room that is 95F @.@

It's hot as hell (humidity at 85%) but there's nothing I can do other than spending on electricity bills with AC running 24/7. At that temperature, I'm always sweating. Wearing headset for gaming is impossible (ears sweat). Heck my working site (fixing pressured vessel) is 110F.

 

[STR]

https://www.amazon.com/Enzotech-BMR...8&qid=1495116112&sr=8-8&keywords=m.2+heatsink

What I went with

I picked up a set on a lark. They're legit. 5c drop at idle from a not-bad-not-great 40c down to 35c. Load temps are 5-10c lower.

 

[Happy Hopping]

I am thinking of this idea: I have a Lamptron fan controller. It c/w 6 sensors. Assuming I get some heatsink, I can use cable ties to tie the sensor to the heat sink on the M.2 SSD, that way, I would know the exact temperature.

 

[ChoGGi]

SIV (system info viewer) will show you the temp the drive reports.
I know you can use it to auto adjust fan speeds with a corsair commander mini or a nzxt grid v2, but no idea about that lamptron.

 

[Happy Hopping]

Not w/ Lamptron. But it's very simple. You see the display at 30 deg. C, you're happy, if it's at 40 deg. C, you turn up the dial

 

[STR]

I have my SSDs report their temp to SpeedFan, which will ramp up the fans on a curve from 38c (min speed) to 45c (full speed).

 

[Happy Hopping]

my next motherboard will have 2 x 140 mm fan blowing on the 2nd m.2, so no problem there. But it's the 1st m.2 that is sandwiched between the sound card and the video card that it will be a concern. Because a 2 slot wide video card is sitting next to it. So I'm not even sure if a heat sink is possible

 

[Happy Hopping]

Totally lost on what you are talking about.

http://goods.ruten.com.tw/item/show?21716902070476

You see the T ? I don't like that. I want just slot, like memorypack

 

[Happy Hopping]

I dig out an Intel m.2 SSD today, it's 480GB, the chips surface is only as thin as a credit card. It's hard to imagine something this thin creates a lot of heat. But on the other hand, if it does, for chips this thin, wouldn't it be easy to burn out the chip?

 

[Happy Hopping]

I FINALLY found what I'm looking for. Now all I need is a dealer in North America so I don't have to pay 20% VAT

https://shop.aquacomputer.de/produc...=3660&XTCsid=mo73gs87fo1qvno73ud9pjoe3s83qqor

 

[daglesj]

I just went the copper RAM heatsink on the controller route. Works fine.

 

[STR]

I dig out an Intel m.2 SSD today, it's 480GB, the chips surface is only as thin as a credit card. It's hard to imagine something this thin creates a lot of heat. But on the other hand, if it does, for chips this thin, wouldn't it be easy to burn out the chip?

CPU dies are pretty small, but generate enough heat to boil water.

 

[Happy Hopping]

I just went the copper RAM heatsink on the controller route. Works fine.

photos?

 

[Happy Hopping]

CPU dies are pretty small, but generate enough heat to boil water.

alright, I'll find a US retailer and order a few of these

 

[daglesj]

photos?

I switched to black recently because...black!



Idles at 39c/102F and max I've managed to push it to is 57c/134F.

The sinks were part of a double Raspberry Pi set.

 

[STR]

alright, I'll find a US retailer and order a few of these

Only if the SSD reports temps that you'e uncomfortable with. Before adding heatsinks, my SSDs would peak at 50c. That's well within specs (70c max operating temp). With heatsinks, they peak at about 40-42c now with an overclocked GTX 1080 Ti blowing hot air on it in a ITX cube 11 inches square. Also well within spec. By all indications, I didn't need to do any of this. You might not have to either.

 

[Nebulous]

I noticed my PNY M2 Nvme ran hotter than satan's ass. Idled @ 60-ish and under activity ramped up close to 72-74c. For shits and giggles I put my fingertip on it just to see how how it really was. Needless to say that wasn't fun So I shopped around and picked up some old school memory heatsinks by Thermaltake from flebay.

The smaller 2 1/2" sinks are the perfect size and with some thermal tape and zipties I attached it to the M2. Had a 60mm fan in my box-o-junk and mounted it so it would blow air across the heatsink and away from it. Temps on the drive are: Idle = 29c and under activity just blips up to 33c

You'll notice the 60mm fan is to the right of the M2 in the last pic.

Total cost for cooling: Under $20

 

[STR]

Had a 60mm fan in my box-o-junk and mounted it so it would blow air across the heatsink and away from it. Temps on the drive are: Idle = 29c and under activity just blips up to 33c

You'll notice the 60mm fan is to the right of the M2 in the last pic.

Total cost for cooling: Under $20

How loud is the fan?

 

[Nebulous]

It's an older 60mm fan from the AMD 754/939 days. The blades have an incline curve to them and I can't hear it at full bore .

Lemme see if i can get info from the back of it.

*Edit* Found it:

Specs:

Dimensions: 60mm x 60mm x 15mm

Bearing: Ball

RPM: 3,000 RPM

Airflow: 14.7 CFM

Noise Level: 24.6 dBA

Power Connector: 3 Pin

Rated Voltage: 12 VDC

Operating Voltage: 10.8 - 13.2 V

Input Power: 1.2 W

Input Current: 0.1A

RPM Sensor: Yes

 

[westrock2000]

On Intel 600p, moved sticker to backside.

Used these two things

 

[Nebulous]

That's kinda permanent isn't it?

 

[Happy Hopping]

I noticed my PNY M2 Nvme ran hotter than satan's ass. Idled @ 60-ish and under activity ramped up close to 72-74c. For shits and giggles I put my fingertip on it just to see how how it really was. Needless to say that wasn't fun So I shopped around and picked up some old school memory heatsinks by Thermaltake from flebay.

The smaller 2 1/2" sinks are the perfect size and with some thermal tape and zipties I attached it to the M2. Had a 60mm fan in my box-o-junk and mounted it so it would blow air across the heatsink and away from it. Temps on the drive are: Idle = 29c and under activity just blips up to 33c

You'll notice the 60mm fan is to the right of the M2 in the last pic.

Total cost for cooling: Under $20

how much is the thermaltake and exactly how does it stick to the SSD?

how do you mount that 60 mm cooling fan? Cable ties?

P.S. You could remove that warranty sticker first

 

[Happy Hopping]

Only if the SSD reports temps that you'e uncomfortable with. Before adding heatsinks, my SSDs would peak at 50c. That's well within specs (70c max operating temp). With heatsinks, they peak at about 40-42c now with an overclocked GTX 1080 Ti blowing hot air on it in a ITX cube 11 inches square. Also well within spec. By all indications, I didn't need to do any of this. You might not have to either.

see, this is why I'm seriously thinking of putting the video card at the x8 link to avoid your problem

 

[Nebulous]

how much is the thermaltake and exactly how does it stick to the SSD?

how do you mount that 60 mm cooling fan? Cable ties?

P.S. You could remove that warranty sticker first

1) The 2 Thermaltake mem sets were $14
2) Thermal tape & zipties
3) Used a pci slot cover and bent it into a clip. fan screwed on, then clipped into place
4)Yes, already removed before adding sink

 

[STR]

see, this is why I'm seriously thinking of putting the video card at the x8 link to avoid your problem

Umm...I don't have a problem. Everything is, and was always, operating 20-30c below max temps. I just wanted lower temps because...well...that's half the hobby.

 

[YeuEmMaiMai]

I have a 2014 Dell Venue 11 Pro with a 256GB SSD and it has lasted just fine with very little cooling

 

[Happy Hopping]

Update:

I have go thru ebay, amazon, newegg, etc. , the only place that has the aqua computer kit from Germany is Amazon of UK. It seems no USA dealer carry this item. Anyone has any suggestion?

 

[rsquared]

It seems no USA dealer carry this item. Anyone has any suggestion?

Performance-PCs carries EK's M.2 heatsink, just like Aqua Computer's except with a big ol' EK logo on it: link

 

[Happy Hopping]

thank you very much. Half of the people in this thread are looking for that.