I’m experiencing a very strange behavior with Windows 10 operating system and the SSD disk:
SK Hynix PC401 512 MBon myAlienware m51 (R1)notebook.After I boot up the Windows, the SSD is getting warmed up to 70 degrees and more (in idle mode, I can see that disk is not getting used via Task Manager performance tab). When I run, e.g. a video game, it’s getting warmed up to 80 degrees and at some point Windows crashes with the BSOD. The core memory dump is not getting created (I presume due to the disk subsystem failure).
However, when I run Linux OS on the same computer, the SSD working temperature is holding around 40 degrees and no matter how hard I stress test it, it just throttles, but it’s not causing the Linux or any software under it to crash. It works very stable in this environment.
Why does the SSD is getting so warmed up under Windows even in idle mode? And what could be causing Windows to crash? Could you recommend a course of action to remedy the situation?
Also, one of the observations — after reinstalling the clean Windows distribution, I’m not getting any BSODs for some time (weeks probably).
Answer
Windows 10 does not inherently cause SSD drives to get hot or overheat. My own two machines have SSD drives: one with 2 x 2TB Samsung Drive (standard SSD) both running at 30 degrees and one with 1 x 1TB Samsung NVMe drive running at 40 degrees.
Both machines are running non-stop
Make sure Windows is completely up to date. Then make sure ALL your drivers (including BIOS) are up to date and then run Resource Monitor.
Open Windows Admin Tools, Resource Monitor and ensure the Disk section is open. Let it run for 30 or 40 minutes and see what is running on your own machine that is using disk at a high rate.
Even under load (large updates) neither of my machines get warm.
Make sure Windows 10 has enough space to work in. Windows 10 basic install with space for updates and only modest software needs 100 GB of disk space to work in.
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