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0 pointsonli5y ago0 comments

No, that's wrong. A heatsink on an NVMe helps to let it run its top speed longer, or forever. Has nothing to do with issues in your case, those things just get warm, and before it gets too hot the heat has to be transported away or they will throttle.

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lowmagnet5y ago

Specifically, a lot of NVMe are right next to GPU placed in PCI slot 1, which is a pretty constant source of heat under load.

I installed an EK spreader sandwich on my Samsung NVMe drive, and it made a massive (20° c) difference over stock. It was previously a bare stick with no surface area/thermal sink to pull heat away.

pdimitar5y ago

What's an "EK spreader sandwich"? Can you send a link to yours as well?

philliphaydon5y ago

No. NVME's are rated to run at 0-70 degrees. If your case makes your NVME run at > 80+ degrees you should prob fix the airflow in your case as your prob running your CPU/GPU rather hot.

onliOP5y ago

You do not need a case for that! The NVMe heats up on its own. There are a bunch of reviews going into that topic, because it just matters for high end NVMe drives. See for example https://www.computerbase.de/2020-09/samsung-980-pro-ssd-test... - though the 980 Evo did well without an additional cooler, and here it's indeed depending on the airflow.

You seem to assume it's the case that heats up to 80C or more, that's not true and also not necessary for NVMe SSDs to go over their limit. Your CPU/GPU has fans moving the heat away, that's a better position to be in...

philliphaydon5y ago

I said if your nvme is reaching 80+ degrees then you should fix the airflow in the case. I did not say the case is 80 degrees. Any semi decent airflow is 100% capable of running an nvme without causing any performance issues.

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adrianN5y ago

How is the lifetime of a SSD run around 70° vs the same SSD with a slightly bigger heatsink that runs at 60°?

faeyanpiraat5y ago

I would run some tests though.

There are all kinds of vendors / models, who knows what kind of throttling they use?

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lowmagnet5y ago

Specifically, a lot of NVMe are right next to GPU placed in PCI slot 1, which is a pretty constant source of heat under load.

I installed an EK spreader sandwich on my Samsung NVMe drive, and it made a massive (20° c) difference over stock. It was previously a bare stick with no surface area/thermal sink to pull heat away.

pdimitar5y ago

What's an "EK spreader sandwich"? Can you send a link to yours as well?

philliphaydon5y ago

No. NVME's are rated to run at 0-70 degrees. If your case makes your NVME run at > 80+ degrees you should prob fix the airflow in your case as your prob running your CPU/GPU rather hot.

onliOP5y ago

philliphaydon5y ago

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adrianN5y ago

How is the lifetime of a SSD run around 70° vs the same SSD with a slightly bigger heatsink that runs at 60°?

faeyanpiraat5y ago

I would run some tests though.

There are all kinds of vendors / models, who knows what kind of throttling they use?

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