MSI’s M.2 Shield has been found to raise SSD temperatures
MSI’s M.2 Shield has been found to raise SSD temperatures
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This raises a major issue with modern M.2 SSDs, which have components on both sides of the PCB, causing heat to be produced at both the top and bottom of the SSD. This makes these SSDs difficult to cool effectively, especially when under heavy loads.Â
While some M.2 SSDs have been found to suffer for thermal throttling under load, it must also be said that this only happens under benchmarking loads, as no day-to-day applications can produce enough data to cause such thermal loads. GamerNexus’ tests were conducted over a 60 minute period under IOMeter, which is an SSD load that is higher than any consumer system could produce outside of benchmarks. Â
Modern M.2 SSDs can offer speeds in the realms of several GB per second, which is not a load that any system can deliver in a real-world scenario for 60 minutes. This would require multiple terabytes of data to be written to the SSD, which is not only larger than the capacity of all M.2 SSD but far in excess of anything that could be defined as a consumer workload.Â
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While MSI’s M.2 Shield has been found to increase thermal loads under benchmarking loads, the question needs to be asked if this is if this will actually affect consumers. Will anyone actually have their SSDs under full write loads for 60-minutes at any given time?Â
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You can join the discussion on MSI’s M.2 Shield raising SSD temperatures on the OC3D Forums.Â
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MSI’s M.2 Shield has been found to raise SSD temperatures
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This raises a major issue with modern M.2 SSDs, which have components on both sides of the PCB, causing heat to be produced at both the top and bottom of the SSD. This makes these SSDs difficult to cool effectively, especially when under heavy loads.Â
While some M.2 SSDs have been found to suffer for thermal throttling under load, it must also be said that this only happens under benchmarking loads, as no day-to-day applications can produce enough data to cause such thermal loads. GamerNexus’ tests were conducted over a 60 minute period under IOMeter, which is an SSD load that is higher than any consumer system could produce outside of benchmarks. Â
Modern M.2 SSDs can offer speeds in the realms of several GB per second, which is not a load that any system can deliver in a real-world scenario for 60 minutes. This would require multiple terabytes of data to be written to the SSD, which is not only larger than the capacity of all M.2 SSD but far in excess of anything that could be defined as a consumer workload.Â
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While MSI’s M.2 Shield has been found to increase thermal loads under benchmarking loads, the question needs to be asked if this is if this will actually affect consumers. Will anyone actually have their SSDs under full write loads for 60-minutes at any given time?Â
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You can join the discussion on MSI’s M.2 Shield raising SSD temperatures on the OC3D Forums.Â
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