Does it hurt to put a fan on an SSD?

On Sat, 29 Dec 2018 00:09:51 -0000, nospam wrote:

In article , mike
wrote:

By the way, the same heat is better nonsense kicks around
every so often for mechanical hard drives as well.

it's not nonsense.

one of the best references is google's drive study, which looked at
more than 100k drives from numerous manufacturers and found that cooler
temperatures actually have a *higher* failure rate:

http://static.googleusercontent.com/....com/en//archi
ve/disk_failures.pdf
The data in this study are collected from a large number of disk
drives, deployed in several types of systems across all of Google¹s
services. More than one hundred thousand disk drives were used for
all the results presented here. The disks are a combination of serial
and parallel ATA consumer-grade hard disk drives, ranging in speed
from 5400 to 7200 rpm, and in size from 80 to 400 GB. All units in
this study were put into production in or after 2001. The population
contains several models from many of the largest disk drive
manufacturers and from at least nine different models. The data used
for this study were collected between December 2005 and August 2006
...
We first look at the correlation between average temperature during
the observation period and failure. Figure 4 shows the distribution
of drives with average temperature in increments of one degree and
the correspond- ing annualized failure rates. The figure shows that
failures do not increase when the average temperature increases. In
fact, there is a clear trend showing that lower temperatures are
associated with higher failure rates. Only at very high temperatures
is there a slight reversal of this trend.

figure 4:
http://www.storagemojo.com/wp-conten..._temp_age_dist.
png

and as for ssds, heat is even less of an issue, since there are no
moving parts.

This thread is spinning out of control.

bad pun.

Detailed data on spinning drives is not relevant.

it is when one claims heat causes mechanical drives to fail.

I read that, in a TLC drive, the difference between
stored value might be as little as 15 electrons.
That ain't much margin.

yet they're are very reliable, and there is now qlc.

I've found they're equally as unreliable as mechanical drives. And some of them are absolute ****e, like OCZ SSDs. They fail in under a year! I'm surprised the company isn't bankrupt yet.