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mSATA PCIe card with Thermal Limitation?

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Chocomonsters

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May 22, 2007
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I am considering either Addonics quad mSATA PCIe SSD card or Sonnet Tempo/Apricorn Vel card with SSD.

I was leaning towards Addonics mSATA card for its ability to dual boot with BootCamp.

I read about a larger 1 TB mSATA slowing down with thermal limitation during large data transfers. Is this another theoretical concern or real life concern? For those few of you have Addonics quad mSATA PCIe card, have you experience this problem?
 
840 EVOs do have such feature, but IMO it only could happen in a laptop. cMP cooling is efficient enough to keep them cool.

Samsung said:
When you’re immersed in your work, you might not notice that your PC is burning hot and struggling to keep up. With 840 EVO mSATA, your PC stays cool, even when you sometimes overwork it. 840 EVO mSATA includes Dynamic Thermal Guard protection, which monitors and maintains optimal operating temperatures for the drive. The throttling feature can drop the SSD’s temperature when necessary to protect your data and ensure the responsiveness you expect.
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I use 2x 120GB in RAID 0 with Lycom Quad adapter and I've never seen more than 40 C on one or another. Thermal Guard limit is about 70 C.
 
Thank you for your response. I've read about this at AnandTech review article for 840 Evo mSATA (under discussion posting). I am assuming those are people using mSATA in laptop.

I will proceed with Addonics / Lycom PCI mSATA card. Planing to get two 1tb mSATA for OSX and Windows 7 (bootcamp) on each mSATA.

Thanks again.
 
666sheep said:
840 EVOs do have such feature, but IMO it only could happen in a laptop. cMP cooling is efficient enough to keep them cool.



I use 2x 120GB in RAID 0 with Lycom Quad adapter and I've never seen more than 40 C on one or another. Thermal Guard limit is about 70 C.
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Hi sheep. Is this your card?
http://www.lycom.com.tw/PE-125.htm

Is your machine bootable in OS X with the 2 mSATAs in raid0? Meaning, does it show up as a single bootable 240GB SSD? Thanks.
 
I use SSDs since the first generation intel drives (X-25M). I never experienced any data loss or drive failures except for mSATA drives. lately I had a crucial 64GB mSATA SSD die on me and I had major troubles with a bunch of SANDISK mSATA SSDs. on the other hand there's the 256GB crucial mSATA in my OpeneELEC system which is tortured a lot (copying movies onto it constantly). the 64GB died while I was installing Windows. the mSATA drives do get very hot during heavy use. they can get almost too hot to touch! conclusion: I'm staying away from mSATA drives if there are other options...
 
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