Heat sink or Thermal barrier on HP 15-da0032wm NVME drive?

[mitchel66]

TL:DR Should I put a Thermal Barrier or heat sink on the NVMe I put in the Optane memory slot? Its temperature is usually 5-10℃ degrees higher than the SSD in the standard location

A year and a half ago I upgraded my HP 15-da0032wm laptop with a 1TB SSD Samsung and I put a WD_Black m.2 NVMe drive in the Intel® Optane™ Memory slot to use as the main drive.

After 18 months, I had to replace the WD_Black due to block errors. The health was 100% but had a critical status. I did the swap out, they are now both Samsung drives and on the same dashboard and I see that there is a 5℃ to 10℃ difference between the drives. The SSD has been running at 26℃ while the NVMe is at 37℃.

I never really paid much attention to it before but with the drive failing I'm just looking if there was anything I should have done differently.

TIA

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

You would have to make sure you have enough clearance to install a NVMe SSD with a heatsink.

Also, 37C is rather decent for a NVMe SSD temperature.

They are designed to run up to 70C before thermal throttling kicks in.

I have a HP notebook that came with a NVMe SSD and that is around the same temperature mine runs at.

I have two desktop PCs where the SSD temps are in the 40's - 50's and they have more airflow.