Question SSD throttles at 55 Celsious

[ArtiomTheGamer]

So my friend has an adata SU 650 and he basically had a very slow and non-responsive system ( he is fresh from console and he just got a pc ) and i asked if he could teamview me his pc and i could try and figure out the problem. I cleaned out the whole pc and left in the bare minimal (no viruses no malware , optimized windows removed junk , unparked cores updated drivers etc etc) and everything looks fine ( cpu temperature and usage is fine , clocks are fine cores are fine, gpu drivers are great he can play normally and get the fps to be expected , ram usage is normal too ) however the ssd looked a bit iffy as it was 55 degrees on idle and the pc took too long to restart and respond (mind this is a brand new ssd and everything is installed on it) so i moved and deleted about 80 gigabytes worth of content (its a 220 gig ssd ) and now has about 140 gigs used with over 40 free and it is still running at 55 degrees and while i was moving all the stuff it was really slow (under 1 mb write and read) and hardrive was writing faster than it most of the time and when i benchmarked it using hdtune it looked like it would go for about a minute with under 1mb and then spike at 300 for a second and fall down and the temp range would be 54 when spike 55 when drop and then it would go 56 and 54(spike) etc etc.
So i googled this ssd and it looks like its a very hot ssd and a lot of people refunded it for that and has an overall review of 3 out of 5. I told my friend if he can move the ssd from the back panel to the front panel(right side panel) and maybe order a small 90 mil 2000rpm fan and ziptie it on to cool it. Or move everything over to his hardrive and use that instead (He cant refund the ssd cause its a premade computer)
What do you guys think?

 

[PC Tailor]

Are you sure it is the temperature that is causing the throttle?
Have you checked the health of the drive using HD Sentinel?
Is it a new drive or old?

 

[ArtiomTheGamer]

Are you sure it is the temperature that is causing the throttle?
Have you checked the health of the drive using HD Sentinel?
Is it a new drive or old?

i checked the health and it is fine, and i also mentioned numerous times that its a new pc with a completely new ssd so yes i am sure its the ssd and temperature i am just asking if there is a simple solution to cool it or do i have to migrate everything to his hardrive

 

[PC Tailor]

i checked the health and it is fine, and i also mentioned numerous times that its a new pc with a completely new ssd so yes i am sure its the ssd and temperature i am just asking if there is a simple solution to cool it or do i have to migrate everything to his hardrive

I am just trying to help and confirming my friend.
It was a bit difficult to deduce the information from the format of your post so just wanted to check. As you actually only mention it once now that I've had yet another read through.

We're volunteers just trying to help at the end of the day.

 

[PC Tailor]

The reason why I ask about the temperature is because the operating temperature for that drive is up to 70 degrees. So 55 might not necessarily be the throttle point. It may just be a defective unit, thus why I asked about the SMART status of the drive, but the SMART status is only an indicator. Not a guarantee.

Usually HD Sentinel will throw out an error if it believes the temperature to be too hot, so again, I was asking for confirmation.

It may be worth running the SSD in a different location or outside of the case where it can be cooled more effectively, if the performance does not improve, then it's likely the drive is defective.