Yes, i know that. But, even so, chips (memory and controller) do get hot. Like a CPU or RAM. I suppose that if you’ll get an ssd drive hot enough, you could either burn it, or make it throtle if it has thermal protection built in. My V100 drive gets up to 55 degrees Celsius during zero-fill in HDTune, with room temperature at about 20 degrees. I’m worried that in the summer, with ambient temps going up to 30-35 degrees, it’ll come pretty darn close to the maximum operating temperature (70 degr). Also, what about those drives used in laptops in a hot summer day?

Still waiting for an answer to my question, do they have thermal pads on the chips, like the SSDNow V+ gen2 (SNVP325), or like the SSDNow V (SNV425)?

I’ve asked the same thing in the forum, we could discuss this further there.

RESPONSE: Solid state drives have no heat issues whatsoever even when RAIDED. There are no moving parts.