Samsung Disk temperature m.2 reaches a temperature of over 60 degrees in Nitro AN515-57

Johnny132
Johnny132 Member Posts: 86 Die Hard WiFi Icon
edited September 4 in Nitro Gaming

Hello, I noticed today that the Samsung 980 m.2 drive reaches a temperature of over 60 degrees under load. Is this normal? By the way, do you know what height the radiator will fit on this drive?

Thank you for your help.

[Edited the thread to add model number to the title and add issue detail]

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  • Johnny132
    Johnny132 Member Posts: 86 Die Hard WiFi Icon

    Laptop to Nitro AN515-57

  • Puraw
    Puraw ACE, Member Posts: 14,043 Trailblazer
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    https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/1295273#Comment_1295273

    Hi, Samsung specifies 0 - 70 degrees C. as the operating temps in the data sheet so you're fine. 😉 The 990PRO heatsinks won't fit in the Nitro slim laptops as the total thickness exceeds 3x the 990Evo SSD that I recommend as the 990Evo runs very cool and doesn't require a heatsink or even thermal wrapping.

  • Johnny132
    Johnny132 Member Posts: 86 Die Hard WiFi Icon

    I understand, I'll check this 990 EVO disk if it works, but I don't think I'll make it this month... I'll let you know when I do the tests. Thanks for your help ;)

  • Johnny132
    Johnny132 Member Posts: 86 Die Hard WiFi Icon

    Is it possible that the heatsink and thermal pad used by Acer on the m.2 increased the temperature of the disk?

  • StevenGen
    StevenGen ACE Posts: 12,487 Trailblazer
    https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/1295344#Comment_1295344

    Just some additional advice for you, as Acer didn't put any thermal pads or their new M.2 thermal graphite foil on the M.2 drives on the Nitro AN515-57 laptop, also it does not specify any for this laptop. What the AN515-57 has is a metal heatshield that is attached to the back cover of your laptop for SSD1 and SSD2 drives to dissipate heat and cool the M.2 drives down, its the same as on my Nitro AN515-56 model that is virtually the same as yours.

    What I did is I covered both M.2 SSD1 and SSD 2 drives with a high-end thermal pad from Thermal Grizzly called Minus Pad Extreme as that works perfectly, btw I'm using a Samsung 970 EVO Plus M.2 SSD drive as my boot drive and that runs at the temp below in Samsung Magician, so try that as it works. Good luck

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    These are the new foils that Acer uses on their new Nitro laptops for Ml.2 drives and RAM modules.

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  • Johnny132
    Johnny132 Member Posts: 86 Die Hard WiFi Icon

    I will check and let you know how it all looks this or next month.

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