SanDisk Extreme Pro Portable SSD getting really hot with M1 MBP!

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SanDisk Extreme Pro Portable SSD getting really hot with M1 MBP!

Hi to everybody! So I bought two SanDisk Extreme Pro Portable SSD 1TB each for editing my photos from them. I have two MBP's, the M1 2020 and 2016 on Intel and a stationary PC.

So when I work from my M1 mbp, those drives are getting really really hot, even when idling... But when I work from my other computers, they are warm, or a bit more than warm.

Do I miss on something or I have a faulty M1 MPB ?

My other external SSD's are fine, but they are SATA, not NVMe (like those SanDisk's are).

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 12.5

Posted on Sep 12, 2022 11:02 AM

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ku4hx

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Sep 12, 2022 02:43 PM in response to GLAZKEE

All drives get warm when they work and the harder they work the warmer they get. To solve that problem, I used thermal tape and stuck my heavy-use external SSD to an aluminum clipboard. Definitely low tech, but that big piece of AL pulls the heat right out of the drive. It's a Samsung T7 so the case is AL too, so heat flowed very well to the rather large heat sink.

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