tempature of a flash drive

[computerwiz1101]

So this might sound like a stupid question but whats the normal ranges of temp for a regular flash drive? does it go up with size or maybe down? not really important but just curious..

 

[Solandri]

Writing to a NAND cell generates a little bit of heat. So it's write speed which makes the biggest difference, not capacity. The faster the flash drive (the faster you're writing data to it), the hotter it'll get. (Physical size matters too - the bigger the drive, the bigger a heatsink you can stick onto it. Those little USB nano flash drives from Samsung and Sandisk tend to get very hot, though not as hot as the M.2 SSDs since their top speed is a lot lower.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hhdWwvh5kI

 

[ajgarcia1428]

The more energy that the flash drive is using, the higher the temperature will be. The normal operating temperature range is affected by the environment and that could be normally from 0 C to 60 C. How much heat the flash drive can withstand is dependent on design.