I got a pc that suffers from severe heating problems because of its poorly designed passive cooling case. I tried several strategies to put temperature under control, did a lot of tests with thermald, but ended up hacking a fan into the case. However, I still have problems with ssd temperatures.

Right now, as I write this, the nvme ssd is at 67ºC and easily goes beyond 80 or 90 during data transfers. I already lost 2 ssds before realizing this was the problem, because I was controlling just the cpu temperature.

There's no physical way to force airflow where the ssd is, so I was wondering if there's some way to throttle data transfer of something to prevent the ssd temperatures from reaching a threshold. All I could find was a vibecoded github repository. I don't care if data transfer gets ridiculously slow, as long as the ssd remain safe, and I can't consider getting any new hardware right now.

I'm currently running fedora 44 on that machine

Edit: I thought there was an easier software mitigation to that, but apparently, solutions will tend to the hardware side, so here are the hardware details:

  • It's an unbranded chinese cheap mini pc with a heat dissipation case that doesn't dissipate well
  • The ssd is mounted on the back of the motherboard. The model is a sandisk M.2 1TB 2280
    Here's a photo of the case, for the reference (don't judge me lol):

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[–] 3 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

Can't you put a heat dissipator on your SSD ?

And I know you said you don't want to buy any new hardware but if you want to throttle your SSD you Might as well buy an HDD. It's not that expensive.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 12 hours ago* (2 children)

    Would a dissipator be able to reduce that peak of around 90ºC to something below the limit of 70 (from the manufacturer's site)?

    About the hdd, this machine is a mini pc that only has 1 nvme slot and no sata connectors. It was a terrible idea to buy it in the first place, but I'm stuck with it for now...

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  • [–] 4 points 12 hours ago (1 child)

    I don't know how it would reduce the temperature but I do know that it will reduce. Normally, with a heat dissipator you should expect to be under 70°C but that also kinda depends on airflow.

    Ah... You dould try an external HDD but that wouldn't solve everything so... Maybe try the heat dissipator, rather than going to a software that might well accelerate hardware deterioration.

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