Do SSD's need to be cooled?

0	How important is it to keep and SSD cool? Do they even give off heat? Or can I hide them at the back of my case with all of my other wires to save space? case ssd cooling wires cool asked Jun 05 '12 at 11:10 Zorbeen98 151●65●78●85

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SSD's get a little warm but nothing close to the temperatures of a hard drive. even in enclosed areas where there is pretty much no airflow such as the hard drive bay of a laptop, they never get hot. (older ones get hot though, but you most likely wont have one as the first gen ones were insanely expensive and were slow)

If you get SSD's don't be afraid to bunch then up or mount them how ever you feel, they work at any angle and have no exposed PCB items.

PS installing an SSD on a laptop will improve battery life by a small amount.

answered Jun 05 '12 at 21:37

Razor512
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I have loads of SSDs bunched up together.

They don't get hot at all. Not even over the room temp.

answered Jun 05 '12 at 11:34

Jackster1337
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Ever had a constant flow of data at about 120Mb/s for about 10 minutes? They get pretty hot! (I achieved this via a mistake by using Objective-C objects for a lot of String values (multiply the actual data by 3 and that by a couple hundert thousand to were it's 20Gig's of RAM (with a 8Gig MacBook Pro) flowing over onto your SSD)

(Jun 06 '12 at 14:16) nitrocrime

We did a 1day test on a server with 15 of them in. Never got hot at all. Was in my room as well that is warm. They warm up but don't get hot. I would be careful at 10 mins if it is "hot".

(Jun 06 '12 at 14:49) Jackster1337

Hmm that makes me question if I was actually checking my SSD, I've got the latest MacBook Pro 17 Inch with an SSD, is it in the bottom left? Because that part got pretty hot.

(Jun 06 '12 at 14:57) nitrocrime

0	No, they do not need to be directly cooled. Most SSD's use less than 3 watts plus they have no moving parts so very little heat is generated. If you want to use double sided tape and hide them away, that's perfectly fine. answered Jun 05 '12 at 20:30 IamTechCrazy 4.6k●75●99●144

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