Can my SSD's handle this heat?

Hey guys,

I moved my HDD to my ODD bay (because it was reaching 55-60C under load), and I installed a 2.5" SSD (OCZ Vertex 4) into the HDD bay and an mSATA SSD (Crucial M4) into the mSATA slot.

According to HWmonitor,(after 2 or 3 hours of gaming) my mSATA SSD reached 66C max, and stayed around 65C the entire time. My OCZ SSD does not have a sensor, but I can only guess it has near identical temps as my mSATA since they are right next to each other. My HDD never got hotter than 49C, which is an improvement, just not as much as I'd expected.

I had a Notepal U3 cooler on full blast the entire time as well.

Should I be concerned?

Appreciate the help!

Edit, the Crucial just hit 67C and stayed there.. I hope I'm not damaging it =\

 

Notepal U3 + Samsung 830 SSD. Max temp I've seen for that after a few hours of gaming was 46C. The max temp for the HDD in the ODD for me has been 42C. I've been extremely happy with my Y580. I bought mine when it first came out. Although, I understand that I might be one of the few lucky ones with a well-built machine. I also live in a pretty warm environment in the Southwestern USA.

 

your temps all depend on your room temp. cool a/c room will probably have normal laptop temps.
my room temp is 82F. My hdd cooks at 62c when both gpu and cpu are stressed, games, etc.

the inside layout of the case is the same, whether well built or not.

the problem is that there isn't any airflow going in from the hard drive vent. Add the heat created by the PCH chip, and you've got a hot ssd too.
When the PCH climbs to 80c, my hdd climbs with it to 62c, even if there is no read/write going on.

you can feel air being sucked in from the ram vents, but none from the hdd vent.


to know whether or not your ssd can handle the heat, you'll have to find out the operating temp range from the spec sheet from ocz.

 

Yea I live in Southern California, so that may be it. But I have a fan and my Notepal constantly on it. SSD's operating range is 0-70C, but I'm wondering if it will still damage the parts if it reaches close to that. I'm curious though. It does get a lot cooler over here in the fall so I wonder if there will be a significant change in temps. I'm pretty sure I have the fans of the Notepal directly on the vents on the laptop. I can't be sure though, I had to gauge it by placing the laptop down. Maybe I should consider reapplying thermal paste?

 

yeah do it, but make sure you record room temperature, and stress test for 30 minutes while monitoring with hwinfo64, before you repaste.
use that as a baseline.
then do the exact same test in the exact same conditions after you repaste, and see how much improvement.

I see too many people repaste and say it dropped temps a ton, but didn't do an apples to apples comparison. No paste is that super unless the factory did a supercrap paste job to begin with.

 

I hear the newer Y580s are more prone to heat problems (possibly because the factory skimps out paste for the newer ones). Now I have to look for a guide on how to reapply thermal paste to a Y580, because I have no idea what I'm doing with a laptop! I did build a desktop, and I have some leftover Cooler Master paste from when I installed my Hyper 212 EVO on my cpu. Will that work or am I supposed to get something like IC Diamond? I'm kind of afraid about taking out most of the parts to get to the gpu/cpu but I do feel like this is a necessary precaution, especially because of the climate I live in.

Edit: Maybe I shouldn't do it because I see that it will void the warranty. I'm knowledgeable, but not that experienced, so if I screw up (or do it successfully but have a problem later) I can't return it =/