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M2 drive temperature

ArrowMk84

ArrowMk84

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I'm seeing my M2 drive hit temperatures of up to 76C when playing games; the video cards are basically cooking it. The GPUs themselves are staying the 70s, so they're not overheating, and the CPU stays in the 40s and 50s. I haven't noticed any data corruption or speed issues with the M2 drive when the temperature spikes, and looking at both Samsung's Magician software and at a SMART tool, the drive is still 100% healthy.

Should I be worried about the drive's temperature?
 
Yeah, I'm going move everything back into my old FT02 case next week. I like the Carbide 240, but it just doesn't have the same airflow, at least not with a 240mm radiator in the front. In addition to the M2 drive getting hot, the motherboard sensor reports temps over 60C, which also isn't good.

Thanks!
 
Silicon can easily do 100 and not have a problem. It is moving parts that has problems due to high temps. When you have caps they can dry out due to high temps. Remember tubes work at high temps and they are more efficient the higher the temp. many transistors also work better at higher temp. But leakage is also higher which is why we control temp to reduce leakage when efficiency drops at some point.
 
ArrowMk84 said:
I'm seeing my M2 drive hit temperatures of up to 76C when playing games; the video cards are basically cooking it. The GPUs themselves are staying the 70s, so they're not overheating, and the CPU stays in the 40s and 50s. I haven't noticed any data corruption or speed issues with the M2 drive when the temperature spikes, and looking at both Samsung's Magician software and at a SMART tool, the drive is still 100% healthy.

Should I be worried about the drive's temperature?
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what are your fan design? If you have EVGA/Gigabtye AIB heatsink fans turn the fans up and it cools your card. My 950 PRO did that once (gah several times...fucking auto fans) because I forgot to turn my fan speed up in gaming. The GPU fans blow directly on the M.2 slot.
 
I remember seeing some cooling devices for HDDs/SSDs, so that is one way to help keep them cool as an added measure. I can't quite remember the names, but I think you can find them on Amazon and eBay, and they were not expensive.
 
I am thinking of upgrading to a m.2 ssd and have been wondering about the possible heat issue as well. It seems like a bad place for the ssd right between the CPU and the video card. I may just save a few bucks and go for the 2.5 ssd instead
 
Changed back to my FT02 case with better airflow. Temps on the drive are now 15C lower, and the motherboard sensor shows 20C lower.
 
LaAaZ said:
I am thinking of upgrading to a m.2 ssd and have been wondering about the possible heat issue as well. It seems like a bad place for the ssd right between the CPU and the video card. I may just save a few bucks and go for the 2.5 ssd instead
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it only needs a fan...its shitty cases. MY 980TI fan cools the drive.
 
Im not sure why people seem to be making this an issue, but I have 2x Samsung m2 nvme drives in the rig in my sig, which are next to my GPU, and have yet to see any increase whatsoever in my system temps from when I had 2x sata SSDs + 1- 3.5" HDD...............
 
bonehead123 said:
Im not sure why people seem to be making this an issue, but I have 2x Samsung m2 nvme drives in the rig in my sig, which are next to my GPU, and have yet to see any increase whatsoever in my system temps from when I had 2x sata SSDs + 1- 3.5" HDD...............
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its not system temps its the drive temps. Mien hit 75 C a few times because i forgot to turn my GPU fan off auto.
 
The point isn't the impact on your overall system temperatures, but rather the system temperatures effect on the drive itself. These drives have a triple-core 500MHz ARM processor (4th Paragraph) which can really put out some heat when doing sustained workloads (benchmarks mostly, lol) and no heat sinks whatsoever.

The end result is that the drive can get hot enough to throttle itself pretty quickly depending on how/where it is installed. If you have two, and they are mounted in the traditional spots around the CPU and GPU, you may want to monitor the temps of the drives themselves during heavy usage.
 
Well with 3x 140mm HAF intake fans, 2 of which are blowing gobs of fresh air directly over my drives, and 3x exhausts of the same variety, I doubt they are overheating, but I will monitor them anyways and see whazupp.

But fyi..Last weekend I was running multiple apps, encoding some video, doing some database work, running back-ups, and surfing with multiple tabs open for about 12 hours straight, and saw no evidence of throttling or other slowdowns....as my rig was just as fast and responsive as it always is
 
bonehead123 said:
Well with 3x 140mm HAF intake fans, 2 of which are blowing gobs of fresh air directly over my drives, and 3x exhausts of the same variety, I doubt they are overheating, but I will monitor them anyways and see whazupp.

But fyi..Last weekend I was running multiple apps, encoding some video, doing some database work, running back-ups, and surfing with multiple tabs open for about 12 hours straight, and saw no evidence of throttling or other slowdowns....as my rig was just as fast and responsive as it always is
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950 PRO throttling is not inherently noticeable. Its so damn fast its throttle is still fast. The problem is damage to the chip if it over heats. not sure what is a danger temp but 75 i am not happy about :/ I need custom fan profile son my next video card
 
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