[SOLVED] Is my Samsung SSD over heating?

[RobertDillinger]

I installed Samsung 970 Pro 512GB SSD in my laptop(ASUS ROG G752VS) around a year ago. Today, I started getting blue screen in Windows 10 while some applications were open. Restarted it serveral times and also opened some applications some applications such as Steam, Firefox(v76.01) and Windows Explorer. Windows crashed everytime. Screen froze for 10 seconds and then the blue screen was displayed. After this, I installed a fresh copy of Windows on the SSD. While installing applications, it crashed again. After this, I downloaded memtest86 to check if there are any errors in RAM. After 1 pass, there were no errors. Then I booted up Windows, downloaded HWInfo. While casually browsing the web, the temperature of "Drive temperature 2" reached 90 degree Celcius. Is the overheating of SSD the cause of blue screen? I have not installed any heat sink for the SSD. Thanks!

Screenshot:

https://imgur.com/rX6nSLe

 

[popatim]

It's been theorized that Temp1 is the flash chips area and temp2 is the controller, which is supposed to start throttling performance around 70 -75 to try and keep itself cool I thought BUT then we don't have any official statement from Samsung on what these actually are either.

And yes, 90c is probably too hot.

 

[fzabkar]

Could we see what CrystalDiskInfo and Samsung Magician report for this SSD?

FYI, the SMART values are reported via Log Identifier 02h (pages 98 - 101):

https://nvmexpress.org/wp-content/uploads/NVM_Express_Revision_1.3.pdf

It's not clear what HWInfo64 is reporting. There are individual temperature sensors which report the actual temperatures at various [unspecified] locations, but there is also a "composite temperature" which "contains a value corresponding to a temperature in degrees Kelvin that represents the current composite temperature of the controller and namespace(s) associated with that controller. The manner in which this value is computed is implementation specific and may not represent the actual temperature of any physical point in the NVM subsystem."