New ssd running at very high temps

busu3

I bought a samsung 970 evo plus(500gb) recently. I was unzipping a huge tar file of about 26gb. The speed was only about 100% and utilization was only about 30% of the drive. I just happened to check the temperature in hwinfo and saw that ASIC controller was at 101'C. Is this ok or is it affecting my performance? Its also mentioned in red.

ttttt

@busu3

Are you using the 970 EVO on a laptop or desktop? I did experiment   with a 36GB copying between two M.2 NVMe SSDs, while the target drive had no heat sinks. The first 10 GB was fast but thermal throttling happened right after that, copying speed suddenly dropped like falling from a cliff.  This thermal throttling helped tp protect my M.2 SSD from overheating. Didn't quite remember how hot it was, but surely not close to triple digit C.

101 degree C is definitely not O.K. Are you sure it is in Celsius degree ? Normal M.2 SSD usage without heavy data transferring should be somewhere in the low 40 C or mid 30 C

If you have massive data transferring , a heat sink is required to protect your PC components.

busu3

ttttt said:

@busu3

Are you using the 970 EVO on a laptop or desktop? I did experiment   with a 36GB copying between two M.2 NVMe SSDs, while the target drive had no heat sinks. The first 10 GB was fast but thermal throttling happened right after that, copying speed suddenly dropped like falling from a cliff.  This thermal throttling helped tp protect my M.2 SSD from overheating. Didn't quite remember how hot it was, but surely not close to triple digit C.

101 degree C is definitely not O.K. Are you sure it is in Celsius degree ? Normal M.2 SSD usage without heavy data transferring should be somewhere in the low 40 C or mid 30 C

If you have massive data transferring , a heat sink is required to protect your PC components.

Its in a laptop. I had a kingston ssd before but its storage was too less so I bought this. I was unzipping a 26 gb file. The drive idles at around 60'C. What should I do?

ttttt

@busu3

Some laptops are just too compact to allow adding heat sinks to the M.2 SSD. Since you changed the M.2 NVMe SSD before, then you should have some idea whether there is enough clearance for a heat sink. My desktop PC uses two M.2 NVMe SSDs, so I am using two sets of heat sinks but with different thickness. To my surprise, what I considered lighter duty heat sink ( kind of thin, just use silicon bands to attach to the drive) always give me 5-6 degree C lower temperature than the thicker, seemed to be more heavy duty heat sink. Maybe drives in different locations of the desktop makes the difference.

My suggestion is at least get a thin heat sink, see if it can fit in your laptop. There will be some thermal pads come with the heat sink. 
However, I would suggest you getting another order for thermal pads of different thickness. Sometimes the thickness of the chips on the M.2 SSD may cause the thermal pads not in good contact with all the surface of the M.2 SSD. The additional thermal pads are for the small area patching to ensure thermal pads are in good contact with the whole area. So, after you first put on the thermal pads, that is not final, look at it from the side see if any area needs additional patching.

Since you are using a laptop, ventilations may not be as good as a desktops. One thing you can do is get a cooler pad that has fans, putting it under the laptop for additional cooling. Hopefully the two process combined can give you 15 degree C + cooling effect.

busu3

But do all laptops have samsung 970 evos heating to 101'C? Also there was a sticker on top of the ssd should I have peeled it off? Could this be some defect of the ssd? The ssd doesn't come with some thermal pads on it? I will search about these heatsinks but what bothers me is that if someone with a laptop buys a samsung 970 then would it always be the same case.