SSD running too hot?

[Dopey Shepard]

Brand new Kingston A400 480 Gb, mounted on the 2.5 slot on the other side of the motherboard, give or take, basically where there are no coolers affecting it

The case has 3 120mm fans, 2 in the front, 1 in the rear

After I've played a game for some time, the temperature is 62 C, CrystalDiskInfo is making all kinds of noises and shows me the "red signs" indicating that it's bad(???)

But is it really alarming or are SSDs supposed to be able to withstand such temperatures?

[Omega]

It's warm but still well within an acceptable range. I wouldn't worry about it. What is CrystalDiskInfo saying exactly?

[Dopey Shepard]

Originally posted by Omega:

It's warm but still well within an acceptable range. I wouldn't worry about it. What is CrystalDiskInfo saying exactly?

it's just telling me that my temperature is in "red borders". Like, usually the border is blue but once it hits 50C it emits a sound and turns yellow. 55C or more makes it turn red, it just changes the color of the border of the thing, nothing more

[Spec_Ops_Ape]

CrystalDiskInfo > Function > advanced feature > alarm - temperature > you can adjust the warning threshold if you wanted to, but as stated by Omega your temps are fine.

[_I_]

the only one that ran too hot was the one with a ton of rgb leds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnST5rA64Oc

[Electric Cupcake]

You usually get more accurate health readings using the manufacturer's tools instead of a general 3rd party SMART utility.

https://www.kingston.com/unitedstates/us/support/technical/ssdmanager

[Autumn_]

If you are concerned about it, move it to an area with better airflow.

It shouldn't effect it to much, NAND is better warm, but the controller being hot will slow the drive down.

As someone said earlier, turn off the warning, or increase the warning trigger.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Install it into a 3.5 inch tray perhaps and have front case fans blow over it.

[Dopey Shepard]

so... i didnt really get a concrete answer as to whether 60+ C degrees are alarming for ssd or not.... I'm gonna assume they aren't and cross my fingers

[Mad Scientist]

Max operating temp 70C per manufacturer. Just get some air blowing on it.

[Dopey Shepard]

Originally posted by Mr. Gentlebot:

Max operating temp 70C per manufacturer. Just get some air blowing on it.

I get it but my question was whether I should be concerned with Sixties or not. I wonder, what happens when it reaches 70? PC restarts or what?

[_I_]

Originally posted by Dopey Shepard:

Originally posted by Mr. Gentlebot:

Max operating temp 70C per manufacturer. Just get some air blowing on it.

I get it but my question was whether I should be concerned with Sixties or not. I wonder, what happens when it reaches 70? PC restarts or what?

check the vid i posted
when a ssd gets too hot it will throttle, slowing down and may freeze the os

[Mad Scientist]

Originally posted by 76561198073455594:

Originally posted by Mr. Gentlebot:

Max operating temp 70C per manufacturer. Just get some air blowing on it.

I get it but my question was whether I should be concerned with Sixties or not. I wonder, what happens when it reaches 70? PC restarts or what?

If you're below the max rated temp of course you're fine. Once you hit and exceed it, then things start happening.

[Jamebonds1]

Does the video game performance in the SSD get slower down?

[Talby]

I would pop the lid off the mobo side and see if the temps improve - if they do, perforate the side panel swiss-cheese style near the SSD to promote airflow and see if it is better - lather, rinse, repeat as necessary

edit - now that I think about it, first pop the lid off the normal side first and see if it's trapped heat causing temp buildup overall, if so see if setting the BIOS cpu temps to more aggressive cooling and the same with the GPU fan speeds (msi afterburner for nvidia and your radeon ctrl panel for AMD)

[Bad 💀 Motha]

SSDs should never even get hot above 40*C unless you're doing heavy writes to it.
If it does it when idle or barely using it, replace it.

Most SSDs can't be hurt by heat unless it's going above 75*C

You'll know when it's been too long or a problem as the OS will BSOD or if secondary drive would just up and go missing from This PC / Disk Management.

Don't follow the old 55-60*C rule, thats for mechanical HDDs