druck  wrote:
> On 24/08/2020 17:34, Jim Jackson wrote:
> > As a general question to folks out there - do SSD's overheat? I'm going
> > to be changing some disks to SSD's soon - probably not very large ones.
>
> They can certainly get warm under heavy use, but I've never had one
> which has exceeded its limits in smart data. When idle they take next to
> no power unlike normal HDs, so unless you are continually thrashing it,
> it wont be a problem.

M.2 drives come in a small form factor and the NVMe variants work a lot
harder than SATA drives.  They can burn 5W in a package the size of a USB
stick, and so they do get hot.  Frequently motherboards and enclosures come
with heatsinks for the NVMe stick.  They will throttle if needed.

SATA drives in 2.5" form factor are slow and the casing is mostly empty
anyway, so the thermal density isn't usually a problem.

Theo

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