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SSDs also don't need any help staying cool unless you are putting them under a lot of stress.
Don't worry about read/write cycles.. this SSD will outlive any HDD and I never heard someone say "I hope I don't stress my HDD to much, it might shorten it's lifespan". So..
I have two 750 Evos. One in my desktop and one in my laptop. The laptop one doesn't recieve any airflow and even under a lot of stress I have never had any issues with it. The desktop one doesn't recieve any airflow either but it does have a lot of room to breath, never had any issues with that one either.
I would think you might have something running in the background which is doing this.
For some reasons memory leaks come to mind, you might want to check the RAM usage once the PC slows down.
My problem is that I only have the issue while updating said games via steam. It is obvious when it starts to deal with files, the whole system slows down, certain programs won't even open only after a minute or so. While gaming, playing Kingdom Come, Battlefield 1 or even ArmA 3, it stays well under 50 degrees celsius. It used to get a little hot, but that was caused by the overall temperature inside the case and extra fans helped a lot. Since then, the overheating problem only occurs while steam updates these games. For example Battalion 1944 downloads around 2 gigs then after it finished it starts to integrate the downloaded content into the game files, that is when the overheat starts. I do not think that anything else is responsible for the issue. I am using Webroot, but I do not believe that an av program can cause this much extra work for the SSD. Also, seemingly no problem with updates on my Seagate HDD.
If that ever happen from normal usage then it's a faulty product that need to be RMA.
Also writing, and reading at the same time can cause slow down in the system for opening folder, or etc...
But updates shouldn't cause heat problems..
Do u even have a decent cooling setup btw?
But they are good for up to around 65*C+ so yea what temps are u seeing?
You can see those with many good decent apps:
> CrystalDiskInfo
> Piriform Defraggler
> OpenHardwareMonitor
Where as most HDDs do not like 50*C+
As for the slowing down, take a look at the CPU usage, that's more likely to be the culprit during decrypting/integrating the downloaded content.
And that was ONLY during extreme length writes; when the writing was done, it cooled back down to that lower temp range in a matter of seconds; much like your CPU usually would do once u take the high load off of it.
Dont worry about games inpacting "SDD flash write cycles"
You're talking a few MB or even only a couple GB.
SSDs can be fine upwards and beyond 150+ TB of writing in its life time. And thats a low ball # to be honest. I've heavily used many PCs for YEARS with the same SSDs in them and they get GB worth written to them every single day; after 2-3 years, still has only had maybe 30-40 TB worth written in its life, and that was due to heavy hits, reformats, ISO restores, etc... thats not even regular everyday, average user usage when u go by my example of my and my co-workers high usage for our SSDs. Chances are, your SSD of any kind will probably outlast any HDD out there, by MANY years.
I bought another SSD (Crucial MX 500) which has the system installed with the remaining space occupied by games. This SSD is not slowing down as much, but still gets to 50 degrees easily. I also bought a new system (Ryzen 5 2600x & 16GB RAM) not so long ago as the problem might have been caused by the CPU itself not been able to handle the workload even though it did not show in the task manager. I would consider my SSD placement (Zalman Z9 Neo) to be pretty decent, next to 2 intake fans but the drives still get to 50 degrees when games are updating through Steam. At this point I am used to this, seeing my system SSD hovering near 40 when idle and jumping by 10 degrees when a system background thing starts. And that is not even heavy load. I am never going to understand this 'issue'.
The 'issue' for me was that with my old PC (i3-6100 & 8GB RAM) the Samsung 750 Evo got to 50 degrees often at which point the whole system slowed down noticeably. You could not even open the task manager and when you actually had a chance to see what is the problem the CPU did not show huge spikes or anything. In practice this meant that when you copied big (or lots of) files the speed went down to a few megabytes after half a minute. So, there was definitely throttling. The new drive kind of solved this problem but ultimately a better PC managed to eliminate it pretty much as far as I can see.
It's usually above 75+ where the ssd would throttle.
M2 SSDs I just install a heatsink on them, they can be found good and cheap on Amazon
ssd will very rarely overheat