Samsung 840 evo SSD running hot, battery depleted

Hi guys,

It has been about a week since I have replaced my old Crucial M4 SSD to a new Samsung 840 Evo 750g SSD. I undertook a full clean install of windows 7 64bit, but am experiencing problems. There problems are as follows:

1. The SSD gets pretty hot. If I place the laptop, a HP Envy 15 3209tx on my lap, I feel warmth from the SSD on my leg. My previous Crucial M4 SSD never got hot. This one begs to differ.
2. My battery life has decreased significantly. I used to run about 3ish hours on my previous m4 120GB SSD, however, I am getting a bit over 1 hour on this SSD. I think the heat is contributing to this.

I have installed the latest firmware on the Samsung 840 Evo SSD. I do not think I have any bloatware or anything to make the SSD run this hot. All I am doing is normal internet browsing and watching videos. I am not playing games or anything CPU extensive etc.

Any idea guys? Do I possibly have a dud? I thought SSDs are not even meant to get hot? This is a real concern to me.

Any help and assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks everyone.

 

Have you done any tweaks to the O/S?

You might want to go to your power settings and select the Balanced profile and then reset to default. See if that helps.


I am assuming you have installed all the drivers (especially the PM driver - PM=Power Management) for your notebook successfully.


Good luck.

 

Thanks for your reply Tiller

No tweeks to the OS. I have installed the HP Power Management and my mode is "HP Recommended". It does the same thing on "Power Saver".

I think I may have a dud...

 

Yeah; RMA time. Hope the next one works as intended.

(Even when I was copying over 350GB of data to my OP'ed (650GB usable capacity) 1TB EVO - the battery life took a huge hit, but the temps were more than reasonable; just checking by feel).

 

Use HWMonitor to check the temps and report back. That would help

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Hi djevoultion, Please see the results. The laptop is not as hot as it normally right now. But maybe you can see something from there?
thank you

 

Hi djevoultion, sorry forgot to reply specifically to you. Please see the attached photo

 

Your idle temps are cooler than mine. Keep HWMonitor running and run a hdd benchmark. Use CrystalDiskMark, set it to 5x1000GB and click "All"

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Please see the photos. My laptop didn't get as hot as I expected. But definitely warmer than it previously was.
Thanks

 

49 is extremely hot for an SSD. Looks like a thermal pad or something may be loose inside the SSD causing the controller to cook itself. Otherwise, double check that the CPU core isn't dumping loads of heat on to your SSD. If it is then its a laptop design flaw and your problem will return regardless of which new SSD you use.
Alternatively, you can try one of the low powered SSDs like the Sandisk Ultra Plus or anything based on the Phison controller. You'll lose a fair bit of performance but theres no point having a high speed SSD that keeps throttling.

 

Thanks for replying. Yeh, it definitely feels hot. My previous Crucial m4 120gb SSD NEVER got hot. This one is shocking. It makes my battery deplete at a much higher rate.
Is there anything else I can do? I guess it probably is best to return it. I have a HP Envy 15 3209tx laptop if that helps.

Thanks

 

Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete and open up task manager and then the performance tab and have a look at how much % your drive is being used. I had a bug in windows 8.1 which used 80-100% of the drive constantly. Had to revert to a restore point to fix it. Not sure what was causing it.

I have the 840 pro version of the Ssd and get up to 47C using the benchmark. Usually it idles at 28-32C. I'm also experiencing high temperatures with an 840 EVO drive but the msata variant. I've created a separate thread for that though.

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Please see these screen shots.

Thanks for your help

 

Those screenshots look normal to me.

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I was just reading that an ssd will throttle back it`s speed when it gets too hot.

John.