[SOLVED] SSD seems to be running hot and slowing down a LOT (Crucial BX500 240GB)

[pitychee]

Hello everyone, I seem to be having a problem with my new SSD.
I noticed that when installing games from steam to the SSD windows slowed down quite a bit and that made me wonder if anything was wrong so I checked the SSD temperatures and it was running at 74C.
After that I began testing some things and found out that while trying to copy an 8GB ISO file the copying speed started at around 400MB/s, then after a couple seconds dropped down to about 200MB/s (pretty normal so far), but then as soon as the SSD hit 55C it slowed down to a crawl, I mean less than 10MB/s, then spiked up to about 120MB/s, then down again, and so on until it finished copying the file.

Does it make sense that and SSD slows down so much when it reaches around 55C?
Please help!


First few seconds of the copying process (you can see the SSD temps on the left, S.M.A.R.T.: CT240...)

Then after a few seconds it slows down (see temperatures)

Here you can see the spikes in the graph

 

[pitychee]

how old is the SSD? Crucial SSD's come with a limited 3 year factory warrenty

1 month old only. I'm going to try to get it replaced by the guys that sold it to me first, if they decline then I'm contacting Crucial directly. I'm from Argentina so it's easier for me to try to get it replaced by these guys first,

 

[pitychee]

Looks like normal throttling qlc write mode, meant to be around 100Mb/s, and that program might not be reading the smart data correctly. Try crucial storage executive to read the smart data correctly.
https://www.crucial.com/usa/en/support-storage-executive

Would you be so kind as to benchmark your BX500 with HD Tune just to be sure it's not mine acting up?

Crucial storage executive shows this, seems pretty ok to me

 

[prophet51]

Mine acts the same way, throttles down to 8Mb/s according to windows task manager then back up to full speed, apparently average speed in qlc write mode is 100Mb/s which looks about right.

 

[pitychee]

Mine acts the same way, throttles down to 8Mb/s according to windows task manager then back up to full speed, apparently average speed in qlc write mode is 100Mb/s which looks about right.

Welp, it might not be faulty after all, thanks for taking the time guys!

 

[bockyx]

I just registered to write that mine acts the same way.

 

[prophet51]

I think I fixed this once by reducing the partition size on the ssd then increasing it back to its original size, you'll need to move your page file to a different disk before you do that.