This is a post of a technical nature. I had difficulty finding information on the extremely high temperature being reported from the drive. So I wanted to post this, in case anyone else were to run into the same problem. This is my first SSD drive. Purchased from New Egg, it was $30 total. I didn’t get a mounting adapter for it, so I used Velcro to hold it in a place where it gets excellent air-flow. Much better than if it was in a bay adapter.

I don’t think I will ever go back to HDD for my OS drive. It does load so much faster on boot up, 50% faster than before. Loading programs? Can we say, “Click, BANG!”? Loading of Chrome has gone from about 15 seconds, to 2 seconds. All of my programs load fast. This is a FLARE 60GB SSD this drive, to be used  only for running my main OS.

Freak Out Time!!

I like for things to run smoothly, if possible. So, I decided to check the operating temp of the drive, using a software utility in Linux. Most computer techs go by Celsius, I still think in Fahrenheit. When my eyes stopped on the temperature reading, I noticed 99 C, heart got a bit faster, still thinking in Fahrenheit. Then gazing to the next temp (in Fahrenheit) it read 210 F. At that moment, I thought the drive may try to live up to it’s name. (Flare)

We all know, once you let the smoke out of those components, they tend to stop working.

I nearly killed myself trying to shut down the computer, and unplug the power at the same time. Cautiously touching the drive, it was cool to the touch. At this point, I’m doing my best impression of a police K-9 frantically searching for drugs, only I was expecting the stink of smoldering components. We all know, once you let the smoke out of those components, they tend to stop working. It then struck me, if Michelle had walked in at that moment, she would assume I needed to be committed. After not detecting smoke, or a burning odor, I tried other temperature detection software, it reported a proper 32 C. Just like the other drives in the case.

Not much rattles me, except maybe electronics, running at nearly the temperature of boiling water! I found it humorous also, that the software was reporting “Disk is OK”. Now, that was funny. Perhaps, it should have read, “Please put flames out, hit Enter when ready”.

The REAL temperature of the drive displayed below. Apparently, the sensor in the Flare SSD doesn’t jive with the program I have, to read the disks temps.

 

It’s over and finished now, I can put away the defibrillator paddles!