What should normal/safe operating temperature be for a M.2 NVMe drive?

tibo1010 · 10 Dec 2017 at 11:11

I have a Samsung 960 Pro 512MB M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe drive. Does anyone know what the normal/safe operating temperature should be for this drive or any M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe based drive? My 960 Pro has an average operating temperature of 44 degrees Celsius. This is during web browsing, having multiple MS Office documents open and running several Virtual Machines.

I have this drive installed on a Gigabyte X299 Aorus Gaming 9 motherboard in the bottom-most M.2 slot (directly below the PCH) which I believe would offer the best thermals.

I'd be grateful for your comments

mattyfez · 10 Dec 2017 at 15:18

That sounds like a normal temperature.

According to Samsung the operation temperature is 0c to 70c
http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/product/consumer/960pro.html

You really wouldn't want it close to either extreme, but 40c is pretty much slap bang in the middle so nothing to worry about.

tibo1010 · 10 Dec 2017 at 15:21

Great, many thanks for the info and advice - it's really appreciated

HoneyBadger · 10 Dec 2017 at 17:40

Mine is around the same temp (a smidge cooler because I have a passive elk block on mine) - it’s designed to go a lot hotter before it throttles.