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SSD Heat Performance

I want to know if a SSD hard disk 2"5 is a magnitude hotter than a conventional mechanical drive.

Can I presume that a SSD hard disk is much faster then a conventional hard disk?

Unfortunately my laptop gets very hot.

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Cybercartel
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They are quite cool. And yes, they are faster.

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This site prints: Temperature: because they use flash memory, SSDs barely warm up at all. The same isn't true of HDDs which can in some circumstances become as hot as 50 °C.

http://www.digitalversus.com/duels-battle-of-the-five-star-products-a966/hard-drive-technology-ssd-vs-hdd-ap677.html

The idea is that SSD does not have moving parts and consumes less power. Power consumption is mostly converted into heat. So power consumption equals heat generation. The actual temperatures depend on how well this heat is dissipated and the amount of surface available to dissipate.

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