As far as hard drives are concerned, the solid state drive SSD is an option sought after for its features in terms of storage of operating systems, its versatility when it comes to reading and writing performance. It is also known for its security and high speed system startup among other things, the truth is that this type of disc also requires care.
It is that although these disks have an advantage, as to whether or not we should perform defragmentation, unlike HDDs which are mandatory, these have a particularity that has to do with temperature. These by increasing both in degrees, heating can cause problems in the system, for this we must always be aware and always check this state of the disk.
What are the steps to see the temperature and status of your SSD?
For this we must first see the Windows version, since from version 20226, an option has been added that allows us to see the temperature for this enter (Windows + R) and copy “Winver” this will tell us the build number of the operating system. In previous versions this option is not found, in any case we can also see the temperature status of the SSD disk.
To see the temperature we will follow this route Home> Settings> System> Storage, in this window we must enter the option “Manage disks and volumes”. We select the SSD and then click on properties, in this part we will see the temperature where it says “Drive Status” at the bottom.
Here we can also see the rest of life, this will give us an appreciation of ourselves the PC disk is damaged or has a lot of cell wear, in case the information is 100% the remaining life everything will be as it should be.
Why is your Sata SSD too hot and how to fix it?
Already in itself This is hardware that reaches very high temperatures, but if it is exceeded the reasons can be determined. It could be that running processes in the background, accelerating the rise in temperature by additional data processing, could be malicious software interacting there and generating this anomaly.
When installing the disk on the board, you may the heat sink pad is not in the correct position, in this case there must be a good contact between the Pad and the heatsink, otherwise the disc will gain temperature little by little. Also placing it close to the graphics card affects the disk, because having so much wattage flow so high the heatsink will project hotter air which is counterproductive.
What programs do your Windows 10 computer use to monitor temperature?
As for when to perform an installation of an SSD hard drive in our computer, we must keep in mind that temperature is a key factor, so we must know in any case which programs would help us for this monitoring. We can’t ignore this because a lack of temperature control can affect the overall operation of the system even damage the hardware.
Now we will present two programs that serve to perform this action one is CristalDiskInfo and the other is HWiNFO, now we will see what they are and how these two programs work, let’s see.
CrystalDiskInfo
This program is intended to determine the status of a hard drive, looking among its factors of use and analyzing all its parts. Sometimes we get that the hard drive is working fine, but it is at risk of collapsing and we don’t know. This program can be found on its website CristalDiskInfo official.
One of the biggest risks of a hard drive in your life is overheating so that it can damage your internal system. directly affecting its content. With this program we will get multiple tools to see in detail the entire system of our disk.
HWiNFO
This is a very effective free program, that is oriented in the monitoring of the different components that integrate a PC. It is one of the best options to take, it can detect everything that is integrated into the system and it gives us the option to see everything through graphics, it is very intuitive and powerful.
This will certainly help us to analyze the hard drive and have control over the processes that it takes, its status and of course monitor your temperature and condition.
