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    Need a hard core stress test for NVME m.2 SSD cooling experiment...

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by s1rrah, Nov 17, 2016.

  1. s1rrah

    s1rrah Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi ...

    I've got a Samsung 950 Pro and will be getting a 960 Pro when they are readily available ... both of these are known to run very hot, especially in laptops ...

    I've got some ideas for how to hack some easy cooling onto these sticks and am wondering how I can totally stress these SSD's for a good while (30mins+ duration) to observe heat build up and potential throttling.

    I have all the popular disk benchmark programs (HDTune, Crystal, etc.) ... but none of these run long enough.

    Any suggestions?

    Thanks!
    joel
     
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    jclausius Notebook Virtuoso

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    Off the top of my head... What if you got a hold of some large iso files and download some source code projects. The you could write a batch file to copy the files to a new directory over and over for however long a period you wish.
     
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    s1rrah Notebook Evangelist

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    Thanks .. that's kind of what I figured out last night ... I used a 350gb system image file and simply copied it from one directory on the drive to another (should of realized it was that simple to begin with) ...

    So far, just tried a laptop cooling pad (Notepal U3) ... just this dropped the Samsung EVO m.2 drives load temps from 69C to 59C ... but going to try some other stuff like thermal pads with small copper shims, etc. ...

    Thanks for the reply...
    joel
     
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