Question Thermal pads on M.2 in laptop

[feca1020]

Hey.

I baught a Kingston KC3000 2TB without heatsink put it in Asus TUF Gaming A15 (FA507NU).
It seems to be on the hotter side. Seems to exceed 70C quite easely, copyd over like 80GBs and reached around 72C. Looking at

Cooler Master Thermal Pads M.2 SSD 60x18x0.5mm​

Could thia help in laptop?

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

Hey there,

The max operating temp of that drive is 70c. That you are hitting that means the SSD is probably throttling.

I'm not sure how effective pads would be without a heatsink to dissipate the heat. Is there a heat sink model for that drive? Would it fit in the laptop? Is there much clearance above the drive when looking at it that it might take a heatsink?

This is the problem though with laptops. Very defined thermal envelope with very little scope.

 

[feca1020]

i think there is around 5 mm above the SSD

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

Is there a heatsink available for that model SSD? I can't really find anything. And with just 5m clearance, I'm not sure any heatsink will work.

Can you refund the drive and get a PCIe 3 SSD. Not as fast, but runs a lot cooler. Even in a laptop.

What about a laptop cooler. That could help a little depending on the location of the SSD and the intakes on the laptop.

 

[feca1020]

I dont think theres a heateink version, also they said because it was opened up they wont refund it

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

I dont think theres a heateink version, also they said because it was opened up they wont refund it

Ah, that's a pity. Do you have a desktop you could use it in?

What drive was in to begin with? Are you using only one drive or two?

 

[feca1020]

My desktop uses its only M.2 slot. The laptop has its own factory M.2 Micron 2400 512GB and I got this one for expension. So 2 in total

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

What temp does the other drive run at?

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

Also what desktop drive do you have. Is it worth swapping them over? If the desktop one is PCie 3, then it will run cooler in the laptop.

 

[feca1020]

i actually dont know how to check the other ones temp I use Kingstons SSD Manager.

The other one is a Samsung 980 Pro

 

[feca1020]

But the factory SSD is mudh slower, only around 4000 and 2000

 

[Unolocogringo]

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Speed equals heat in a laptop.
You have to decide what you want.
Most people can not tell the difference between a NVME PCIE 3.0,PCIE4.0 or SATA SSD in most common tasks. Only in benchmarks and large file copy's. In a laptop in limited cooling after a few gigs all of them will start heating up and slowing down.

If you copy lots of sequential data (80 GB) to any of them they will get hot in a laptop.