On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 at 10:42, Ranjan Maitra <mlmai...@gmx.com> wrote:
> Thanks, John! > > On Fri Apr15'22 09:29:33AM, John Mellor wrote: > > From: John Mellor <john.mel...@gmail.com> > > Hi Ranjan, > > > > SSDs do not use very much power, and therefore even the largest ones do > not > > require fans. I've never heard of one that does need that much cooling. > SSD's can get hot, but use thermal throttling to prevent damage. Data intensive applications do see slowdowns, so you do see cooling in SSD RAID arrays, and you can get ad-on cooling thermal pads, etc. > > The part# that you mention is a waay-overpriced (US$360 on their website) > > Dell 512GB M.2 drive, that definitely has no fan. > > No, we are not getting the SSD, it seems to pass health checks. I just put > the part number out because of the question whether it was a SSD. It seems to be, > though perhaps a bit old. > Dell systems generally have good heat management, so your SSD may have benefitted from the system cooling fans. My former work (optical remote sensing) involved moving large volumes of data. We used to have a lot of disk failures, but in the last 10 years rotating disks rarely failed until a few days past the warranty period. I routinely replaced drives at end-or-warranty. In your position, I would consider replacing the SSD with a current model and put the old one in an external case for use as "scratch space" or backups. > > Maybe you should order the failing fan from their parts list, and > replace it > > instead. > > Yes, we are getting a new(?) fan pack from Dell, since it is under > warranty for another month. Probably will be here next week. > The last Dell fan I got under warranty was delivered to a depot run by a "no-name" courier. That was a memorable experience, At the depot a long line of customers were waiting to pick up packages, but the person at the front was from a local hospital and looking for a package running up against a time constraint. Imagine a warehouse piled high with a jumble of packages and all hands frantically searching for the missing item. -- George N. White III
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