ADATA SSD SX6000SP extremely hot

[richardnator95]

Hello everyone,

I recently installed an ADATA SX6000SP PCIe M.2 2280 SSD in my Lenovo Legion Y520 laptop along its standard 1Tb HDD. I made a fresh install of windows 10 in my SSD leaving the HDD for storage only, thus running my OS much faster.

Everything works fine, windows runs much faster than it did in the laptop's HDD, but the SSD's temperatures are extremely high.

I downloaded ADATA's SSD toolbox for monitoring it and it says that its average temperatures (Even at minimum disk usage and after 15 minutes of turning on my computer) are between 70°C and 80°C. Since the operative temperatures of my SSD are between 0°C and 70°C I assume those temperatures are not right.

I dont know what to do, my SSD's firmware is up to date and so is my OS. I know I could probably buy some kind of cooling pads for lowering its temperature, but at very low disk usage I should not have that kind of temperatures.

I really appreciate any help you can give me.

 

[srdowns]

Air flow in laptops can be an issue - all laptops have to deal with this. Your SSD is running too hot. I have 2 SSD's in my system. One has a heat shield attached and one does not. The difference between the two is 15 degrees C. You can try attaching a heat shield, cooling pads, etc on the SSD, as long as you have enough room to do so. If may not be enough however. Make sure all air vents on your laptop are clean. Canned air is great at this. You can also try laptop fan coolers or cooling pads for your laptop.

 

[richardnator95]

Air flow in laptops can be an issue - all laptops have to deal with this. Your SSD is running too hot. I have 2 SSD's in my system. One has a heat shield attached and one does not. The difference between the two is 15 degrees C. You can try attaching a heat shield, cooling pads, etc on the SSD, as long as you have enough room to do so. If may not be enough however. Make sure all air vents on your laptop are clean. Canned air is great at this. You can also try laptop fan coolers or cooling pads for your laptop.

Thanks for the advice! I still feel that that those temperatures are not supposed to be that high, but your solution is the best I can think of right now, if anyone else has other opinions Im looking forward to read them. Thanks!

 

[srdowns]

Your right, they are not supposed to be that high. It seems like Adata ssd's tend to run hot to begin with. I have an laptop that my wife uses and it has always run hot. The best that I could do there was to install a sata ssd. Even though that laptop was always hot, by using a sata ssd, the ssd was always well within the operating temperature of the drive. I don't know if you went to a cooler running PCIe M.2 ssd if that would solve your problem or not. If you don't have much air flow in that part of the laptop, it might make no difference. Maybe someone else has some other ideas on this. Good luck.