Hi everyone,
I have two 1TB Samsung 840 EVO mSata SSDs in my laptop (P150SM, specs on my profile) and they get fairly hot during normal use such as gaming. Each SSD gets to nearly 80c according to CPUID HW Monitor and the palm rest and underside of my laptop where one of the SSDs are gets very very warm. It is sort of annoying because one SSD is located directly under the touch-pad/wrist-wrest area and becomes uncomfortable after awhile. Heat does not affect performance in my testing (around 550MBps read/writes each).
Does anyone else see temps like this with their mSata SSD? Should I be worried about these temps? I assumed it was normal because both SSDs read very similar temps even though one is next to the CPU with tons of airflow and the other is enclosed under the touch-pad with no airflow.
(No guessing please, only reply if you actually know something about SSD temperatures.)