SSD is getting hot, performance affected?

[Randallel]

I'm using an Asus Maximus IX Code and the SSD is an OCZ RD400. I have to use the M.2 slot next to the heatsink in order to use X4. The slot is supposed to be "protected" by a heatshield as well. So my concern is that my SSD gets to 70C when under load. Will that affect performance/cause premature wear on the SSD?

 

[Ravi Sankar]

May be there are lots of fragments.

1. Do de-fragmentation
2. See the Pagefile location, if it is on SSD, try relocating page file to some other disk, this reduces lots of swapping and reduces SSD utilization significantly
3. See if there is any virus in your system, or any undergoing scan is happening

 

[nukemaster]

Some SSDs will throttle the onboard controller as things heat up.

OCZ specs the drive from 0c to 70c
https://ocz.com/us/ssd/rd400-ssd#more-specs

These temperatures are not quite the same as the core temperature so I think you will be fine. Contact OCZ to be sure. The flash will just laugh at 70c and chances are you are seeing the controller.

 

[Ravi Sankar]

If you suspect any SSD issue, test the SSD health before you conclude on something

 

[Randallel]

Some SSDs will throttle the onboard controller as things heat up.

OCZ specs the drive from 0c to 70c
https://ocz.com/us/ssd/rd400-ssd#more-specs

These temperatures are not quite the same as the core temperature so I think you will be fine. Contact OCZ to be sure. The flash will just laugh at 70c and chances are you are seeing the controller.

What is the difference between the controller and flash?

 

[nukemaster]

The controller is the brain(cpu) of the SSD. The flash is the memory that stores the data.

 

[thebudman420]

May be there are lots of fragments.

1. Do de-fragmentation
2. See the Pagefile location, if it is on SSD, try relocating page file to some other disk, this reduces lots of swapping and reduces SSD utilization significantly
3. See if there is any virus in your system, or any undergoing scan is happening

I have always heard you never defragment an ssd it is not like a hard drive and will wear it out a lot faster and it doesn't need degfragmented.

 

[thebudman420]

You could always add some cooling to it. Mount a fan to blow over the ssd will most likely make it run a little more cool. Or you could take it to the extreme and get some kind of heatsincs for it.

 

[Ravi Sankar]

May be there are lots of fragments.

1. Do de-fragmentation
2. See the Pagefile location, if it is on SSD, try relocating page file to some other disk, this reduces lots of swapping and reduces SSD utilization significantly
3. See if there is any virus in your system, or any undergoing scan is happening

I have always heard you never defragment an ssd it is not like a hard drive and will wear it out a lot faster and it doesn't need degfragmented.

You are right if your SSD suports TRIM. however you can still move the page file out of ssd to reduce more writes to reduce the ssd load

 

[thebudman420]

May be there are lots of fragments.

1. Do de-fragmentation
2. See the Pagefile location, if it is on SSD, try relocating page file to some other disk, this reduces lots of swapping and reduces SSD utilization significantly
3. See if there is any virus in your system, or any undergoing scan is happening

I have always heard you never defragment an ssd it is not like a hard drive and will wear it out a lot faster and it doesn't need degfragmented.

You are right if your SSD suports TRIM. however you can still move the page file out of ssd to reduce more writes to reduce the ssd load

Is this recommended if you get an ssd i don't have one yet but will soon, How bad will this effect performance?

 

[Ravi Sankar]

May be there are lots of fragments.

1. Do de-fragmentation
2. See the Pagefile location, if it is on SSD, try relocating page file to some other disk, this reduces lots of swapping and reduces SSD utilization significantly
3. See if there is any virus in your system, or any undergoing scan is happening

I have always heard you never defragment an ssd it is not like a hard drive and will wear it out a lot faster and it doesn't need degfragmented.

You are right if your SSD suports TRIM. however you can still move the page file out of ssd to reduce more writes to reduce the ssd load

Is this recommended if you get an ssd i don't have one yet but will soon, How bad will this effect performance?

Moving page file off from SSD reduces some SSD load, and if you put the same on Secondary HDD, HDD will work (along with SSD), meaning disk work distributed, HDD takes some load instead of idle, page file swaps will be taken care by HDD, and more SSD bandwidth available for you to get more quicker reads/writes. Page file task will be taken care by OS, so, I think you will not feel any lag, cos OS will take care of it, may be it will be visible to you while retaining huge memory intensive application from page file to RAM.

So what I recommend is, if you have very less amount of RAM(<4G), then keep the page file on SSD to compensate the RAM deficiency, cos after RAM SSD is faster in the system. If you have >8G RAM, then move the page file to HDD

 

[nukemaster]

A bit late here, but SSDs fragment intentionally to keep the flash wearing at the same level. Defrag does not help them in general(will not kill it to do so now and then, but no point to doing it).

I would honestly leave the page file on the SSD because it has great read performance and the wear on modern drives should not be an issue(any software that regularly logs data is far worse for it. My APC software is bad for this with logs every 15 min 24/7).

Cooling could help.