Samsung T7 gets kinda noticeably warm when used, should i be worried?

[kofman13]

Hard to say exactly how warm. But i am using it with M1 mac as an audio sample and video storage hard drive for music and video production. when im editing videos where the raw files are on the T7 or working on a big music project and playing the project where samples on the T7 are being played every second, it gets noticeably warm. i wouldnt even say VERY warm. i also never really held an SSD under heavy use to test for temperature lol. And they say T7 gets warm because its NVME and not Sata. Definitely not painful to touch and i would definitely not call it "hot", my old 2019 intel macbook pro would actually be almost painfully hot if i left my finger close to where the monitor hinge at full CPU load. Is it okay since the body is metal and i guess its one big heatsink? or should i be worried about longevity and lifespan when Ableton for example is constantly reading (not writing) maybe 2-8mb/s? for hours a day? thinking about returning it and getting T5 people say it doesnt get warm although its more than twice as slow as the T7 i have now.

 

[chrfr]

Hard to say exactly how warm. But i am using it with M1 mac as an audio sample and video storage hard drive for music and video production. when im editing videos where the raw files are on the T7 or working on a big music project and playing the project where samples on the T7 are being played every second, it gets noticeably warm. i wouldnt even say VERY warm. i also never really held an SSD under heavy use to test for temperature lol. And they say T7 gets warm because its NVME and not Sata. Definitely not painful to touch and i would definitely not call it "hot", my old 2019 intel macbook pro would actually be almost painfully hot if i left my finger close to where the monitor hinge at full CPU load. Is it okay since the body is metal and i guess its one big heatsink? or should i be worried about longevity and lifespan when Ableton for example is constantly reading (not writing) maybe 2-8mb/s? for hours a day? thinking about returning it and getting T5 people say it doesnt get warm although its more than twice as slow as the T7 i have now.

SSDs normally get warm in use. It's not a concern.

 

[kofman13]

SSDs normally get warm in use. It's not a concern.

thanks!

 

[timinlondon]

Hard to say exactly how warm. But i am using it with M1 mac as an audio sample and video storage hard drive for music and video production. when im editing videos where the raw files are on the T7 or working on a big music project and playing the project where samples on the T7 are being played every second, it gets noticeably warm. i wouldnt even say VERY warm. i also never really held an SSD under heavy use to test for temperature lol. And they say T7 gets warm because its NVME and not Sata. Definitely not painful to touch and i would definitely not call it "hot", my old 2019 intel macbook pro would actually be almost painfully hot if i left my finger close to where the monitor hinge at full CPU load. Is it okay since the body is metal and i guess its one big heatsink? or should i be worried about longevity and lifespan when Ableton for example is constantly reading (not writing) maybe 2-8mb/s? for hours a day? thinking about returning it and getting T5 people say it doesnt get warm although its more than twice as slow as the T7 i have now.

Mine also gets pretty warm. I bought it for regular daily use because the SSD on my 2015 MacBook Air was always filling up and I needed to shift a lot of data somewhere else. I also needed to put a whole of other backed up junk in one place, amounting in total to about 500 GB. After copying about 250GB from another external drive the case of the Samsung was really quite hot. I would say hot rather than warm. Not too hot to touch, but hot. When just plugged in, not doing anything rather than writing a lot of data, it still gets pretty warm. I read elsewhere that this is normal, but without having a definite temperature reading it is unnerving. When it is writing a lot of data, I would feel nervous about letting it carry on with the task without me around, just in case something nasty happened.

 

[BigMcGuire]

My NVME drives (in an external enclosure) got so hot I couldn't touch the enclosure for more than a second. Ran it this way for years before putting it in a desktop (where it continues to run today).

Several thumb drives I bought in the last year got so hot they stopped working. (Not no-name brands either). These things definitely aren't made for occasional photo transferring or something light.

Definitely different than the old Sata3 days!