Laptop getting hot after install of SSD!

Hi all,

I've recently fitted a Samsung 16GB 2.5 Inch MLC Flash Solid State Disk Drive (ide) to my laptop (panasonic toughbook cft4).

It works fine but I have had to take it out as the touch pad and area to the left of the touch pad now get quite hot after a short period of use. I have put back the old HDD and now that area stays cool, I then swapped back to the SSD and the area gets hot again.

I've taken it out now as this worries me, but I really want an SSD in this laptop.

What could be causing this? The area that is getting hot is not where the hard drive is located. It only takes a couple of minutes to get hot with the ssd installed. and never gets hot with the normal HD installed.

Could it be that the lower power consumption of the SSD is making some other component get hot?

Any ideas anyone?

Cheers

Adam

 

It shouldn't be the lower power consumption, that should make it cooler. Perhaps you have a faulty drive? Hopefully someone else can give you a better answer or at least a more detailed one.

 

Id look at your page file and hdd usage under device manager maybe something is accessing the drive massively and causing alot of heat, other than that my guess is a faulty drive aswell. I dont know much about SSD's and how hot they normally run but I know due to its nature of being all electronic that if something on the computer is pining it for info over and over again it can go after that data while a physical hdd would be limited by its physical speed so even if the computer wants it to read the whole hdd at once it can only do so much at once and has a max speed.

Id assume if you told a SSD to read the whole HDD at once it could try and may malfunction. Just theory here tho

 

It would be nice to know what u have installed and how much space is used for disk caching/page file etc.

 

thanks for your help,

it is not the drive that is getting hot, but another part of the laptop that is nowhere near the drive.

You don't even need to be accessing files, if it is just left in the bios settings screen it gets hot, but with the old hdd the area is almost cool.

 

Something to do with the mobo and the interface/compatability I ponder. Is the SSD touching anything on the mobo that can cause a short?

 

No not touching anything, the hard drive is kept in a plastic jacket it would be impossible to sort anything.

Doesn't sound like this is a common problem anyway. Anyone else had a similar prob?

 

still have not got to the bottom of this, anyone got any new ideas? I'd love to get a ssd drive in this notebook