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mrgettmann
04-09-10, 06:55 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for all your continued help and support with my sometimes nooblet questions.

I have never owned a SSD before in my life and was wondering what kind of heat they put out? Is it necessary to watercool them?

Dont want to spend money on cooling plates unless it is actually needed. I know they are generally nice for 10k HDDs, but seeing how i have no experience with SSDs I would once again like seek your guidance.
Know Nuttin
04-09-10, 07:39 PM
Not a ton, no need to cool them.
mrgettmann
04-09-10, 07:50 PM
Thank you, that will free up a little cash.
Ben333
04-09-10, 08:42 PM
Like it had been said before in response to WCing a drive, "you can't overclock a hard drive". SSDs I'm guessing make less heat than even a drive slower than 7.2k RPM. Only reason for WCing drives I'm guessing would be if you have high RPM drives and not a lot of air flow, or just a lot of drives.
mrgettmann
04-09-10, 09:18 PM
Yeah, 10k rpm drives can get kinda hot if you are doing something to access them for a long time. IE downloading large files, installing something monsterous, or transferring data bases etc.
mgoode
04-10-10, 04:48 AM
My SSD's produce almost no heat and thats with 4 in raid 0. No need to WC them IMHO.
joshhua5
04-10-10, 04:58 AM
My SSD's produce almost no heat and thats with 4 in raid 0. No need to WC them IMHO.

Ever stop to think that's because the load is on for 1/4 the time since the job is done 4x the speed
Mr Alpha
04-10-10, 05:07 AM
With the exception of the power on LED the SSD is probably the least power consuming device in your computer. They idle under one watt and under load get up to between one and two watts. 100% random writes, probably the highest load you can put on a SSD, might get it above two watts of power consumption. Roughly the same as a slow fan.
mrgettmann
04-10-10, 09:47 AM
mgoode, you have your SSDs in RAID. How does that work out, I have seen a lot of traffic about degradation of the SSDs over long term due to lack of trim support of SSDs in a raid.
freeagent
04-10-10, 10:01 AM
Ever stop to think that's because the load is on for 1/4 the time since the job is done 4x the speed

It doesnt work like that, they are used equally.

Regardless, I have my ssd sitting beside my psu, It doesnt get warm at all.
ratbuddy
04-10-10, 10:04 AM
It doesnt work like that, they are used equally.

Maybe in RAID 1 they are, but if he's using RAID 0, each drive is only getting 1/4 of the total data which means they're being accessed 1/4 as much as a single drive for any given data size.
EarthDog
04-10-10, 10:05 AM
Its a monumental waste to watercool mechanical hdd's. Since SSD's put out less heat, it would make it even more of a waste...
freeagent
04-10-10, 10:08 AM
Maybe in RAID 1 they are, but if he's using RAID 0, each drive is only getting 1/4 of the total data which means they're being accessed 1/4 as much as a single drive for any given data size.

I understand that. I was just going by from when I ran 3 raptors. All 3 made noise all the time. Meaning all 3 were working equally :beer:
CompuTamer
04-10-10, 10:16 AM
Do SSDs survive in netbooks?

Yes: Then they don't need cooling.
No: Well, they do, so no reason to theorize :)

No water cooling required. They can stay cool with no airflow. I've seen them taped to the back of the mobo plate running just fine.
EarthDog
04-10-10, 10:18 AM
Right. But they were active for 1/3 of the time in your case, and 1/4 for rat's expln... ;)
freeagent
04-10-10, 10:28 AM
Meaning they work equally :D

Regardless of how much data is being fed to each drive, they are doing an equal amount of work.

I am useing womens logic here, cant you tell?
Terriac
04-11-10, 05:39 PM
Thought to add this: not only they don't produce much heat, but they also withstand higher temperatures than HDDs.
Sir Barton
04-11-10, 07:33 PM
Its a monumental waste to watercool mechanical hdd's. Since SSD's put out less heat, it would make it even more of a waste...

Well said. Ive run hard drives in less than ideal temperature conditions with no slowdown or failure. Its nice if you want to sit and stare at it all day, but other than that, why bother?
fusion509
04-11-10, 07:37 PM
My ssd puts out virtually no heat. I would not be worth it to liquid cool it.
CompuTamer
04-11-10, 08:11 PM
Just thinking, wouldn't liquid cooling an SSD cause it to run warmer? Since the fluid would be above the ambient temp, and SSDs run near ambient?
mrgettmann
04-11-10, 08:28 PM
Good point, just another nail in the coffin. Skip the watercooling on the SSDs.
visbits
04-11-10, 08:58 PM
Is it necessary to watercool them?



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Terriac
04-12-10, 03:18 PM
Just thinking, wouldn't liquid cooling an SSD cause it to run warmer? Since the fluid would be above the ambient temp, and SSDs run near ambient?

So ... you'd be warming up the SSD but cooling down the liquid.

Which means that watercooling your SSD would help cooling down the CPU and all other devices connected to the watercooling system :p
Marshmallow64
04-12-10, 03:25 PM
^ Lol.