[QUOTE=Handsome Matt;48892236]Only real use case is for computers with poor airflow. If you're running dual GPUs or something and you're dumping a lot of air towards the SSD, I guess then it could be a little useful.
Definitely not for your average consumer though.[/QUOTE]
This could be useful for people running a mass solid state raid array. SSD storage is becomming cheap enough now that people are just filling their network racks with nand instead of platters.
Ssds are used for video cameras as well. Last time i used one it was really fucking hot afterward. I could be wrong in saying this could be applicable toward that as well. Regardless doing heavy reading and writing will make them toasty.
Overkill, to say the least.
How hard would it be though to water cool a hard drive, where temperatures matter just slightly more?
[QUOTE=wickedplayer494;48892738]Overkill, to say the least.
How hard would it be though to water cool a hard drive, where temperatures matter just slightly more?[/QUOTE]
HDD watercooling has been a thing for a really long time.
my ssd stays around 25-30c and its a really shitty position on the case so I don't see the point in this,
The newer SSDs have been getting pretty hot. Honestly an M.2 with a small heatsink should be good enough though.
Water-cooling has always scared the shit out of me, because it's like, water, all up in your computer.
[QUOTE=gk99;48903012]Water-cooling has always scared the shit out of me, because it's like, water, all up in your computer.[/QUOTE]
distilled water in itself won't muck with the PC in any way even if it leaks. It's not actually conductive as long as it's clean water. Or well it is, but barely.
[QUOTE=wraithcat;48903269]distilled water in itself won't muck with the PC in any way even if it leaks. It's not actually conductive as long as it's clean water. Or well it is, but barely.[/QUOTE]
Yeah but once it hits air/is in your loop long enough it becomes conductive. But watercooling really isn't nearly as big of a deal as most people think it is. As long as you get good parts and are careful filling it there's very little risk.
If you aren't afraid of the potential result of your mistakes, making a computer water cooled is actually fun. Even after cutting my hand on a punch out panel hole was only a result of my own impatience, and I would do it again if I had the money to build one for myself. Maybe without a horribly designed case next time.
Please correct me if I'm wrong but I thought SSDs performed better when they ran hot?
[QUOTE=antair;48906201]Please correct me if I'm wrong but I thought SSDs performed better when they ran hot?[/QUOTE]
I've never heard this before, I assume SSDs don't give a fuck about temperature as long as they aren't extreme...
[QUOTE=Warship;48906776]I've never heard this before, I assume SSDs don't give a fuck about temperature as long as they aren't extreme...[/QUOTE]
Found it!
"For active use the temperature has the opposite effect. Because higher temperature makes the silicon more conductive, the flow of current is higher during program/erase operation and causes less stress on the tunnel oxide, improving the endurance of the cell because endurance is practically limited by tunnel oxide's ability to hold the electrons inside the floating gate."
[url]http://www.anandtech.com/show/9248/the-truth-about-ssd-data-retention[/url]
[QUOTE=antair;48910096]Found it!
"For active use the temperature has the opposite effect. Because higher temperature makes the silicon more conductive, the flow of current is higher during program/erase operation and causes less stress on the tunnel oxide, improving the endurance of the cell because endurance is practically limited by tunnel oxide's ability to hold the electrons inside the floating gate."
[url]http://www.anandtech.com/show/9248/the-truth-about-ssd-data-retention[/url][/QUOTE]
It's probably unnoticeable and just sort of the inverse of the discovery that supercooled electronics actually perform worse.
[QUOTE=Handsome Matt;48892236]Only real use case is for computers with poor airflow. If you're running dual GPUs or something and you're dumping a lot of air towards the SSD, I guess then it could be a little useful.
Definitely not for your average consumer though.[/QUOTE]
There's also the end-all excuse of 'why WOULDN'T I want this'.
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