https://blog.insanegenius.com/tag/ssd/Recent content in Ssd on Pieter Viljoen's BlogHugoenMon, 15 Mar 2021 15:10:50 +0000https://blog.insanegenius.com/2021/03/15/cooling-an-overheating-mvme-ssd/Mon, 15 Mar 2021 15:10:50 +0000https://blog.insanegenius.com/2021/03/15/cooling-an-overheating-mvme-ssd/<p>The SSD in my Windows 10 system started reporting failures, and as luck would have it, died while I was cloning it to a new drive. I suspect death was caused by overheating, and I addressed that with my new setup.</p> <p>This Windows 10 system is in an <a href="https://ncases.com/products/m1">NCase M1 v5</a> SFF case with an <a href="https://rog.asus.com/us/motherboards/rog-strix/rog-strix-z390-i-gaming-model/">ASUS ROG STRIX Z390-I GAMING</a> mini-ITX motherboard and a <a href="https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/product/consumer/970evo/">Samsung 970 EVO</a> NVMe M.2 SSD drive. The motherboard has two M.2 slots, one on the front of the motherboard and one on the back. The slot on the front has a heatsink, but I noticed the drive runs hot even under no load. Some googling showed this to be a common problem with the heatsink and M.2 slot being heated by the motherboard chipset, so I moved the SSD to the slot on the back of the motherboard. The SSD still reported +60°C temperatures under load, and I added a passive <a href="https://amzn.to/3rMKAB3">heatsink</a>, and that kept temperatures in the low 50°C&rsquo;s even under load.</p>