I am using a Samsung 990 4TB NVMe M.2 drive as a cache drive on my Asus Dark Hero VIII motherboard.  When I transfer a hundred gigabytes or more of data to the cache, the drive is overheating to the point of about 57C. It has a heat sink installed but it's not doing the job. 

 

Any suggestions on how to solve this?

 

Thanks!

57° means NOTHING for an NVMe SSD.

This value is meant for "normal" (rotating) Hard Disk.

You can set it higher for SSDs. Even up to 90° for NVMes, because they have their internal temperature management. If they overheat, they slow down themselfs until the heat is within an acceptable range again (you do not want to do this because the slowdown is really ruining your nervs. So ensure proper cooling that will keep them below their limit).

 

Go to the "Start" Tab, click on your SSD's name, scroll down to SMART Settings and here you can define the warning and error temperatures for this single drive (instead of ALL drives at the Settings page). Sane values are usually 70° warning and 80° error temperature, but you should take a look into the specs of your particular disk. Many can go much higher.

 

 

Thank you. That gives me some peace of mind. I set the levels to 60 and 70 since the specs say operating temps are from 0 to 70C