SSDs get hot?

[froggyboy604]

I wonder if the laptop is designed to use the hard drive metal case to help cool the laptop like how CPU coolers have a piece of meta called the heatsinkl on the bottom of the fan to cool the CPU on the motherboard.

Is it possible to disable the 128 GB SSD, or take it out?

Maybe formatting and partitioning the 128GB SSD to a non-Windows file system like EXT4/ fourth extended filesystem for Linux may solve your OS drive problem.

[Skeithex]

Possible, the only thing I see SSDs come in is plastic cases that honestly feel rather cheap.

The OS drive issue is a minor one as it only adds about 3 seconds to boot up to give you a choice on which drive to use.

[froggyboy604]

Most regular SSD drives are made of cheap plastic which may not be good for keeping the SSD cool because plastic makes it harder for heat to escape.

I think SSD makers earn less money from SSD drives sales than they want to earn, so they use a cheap plastic cases, and other parts. If they use a better metal case, and nicer design, the SSDs may end up selling at a loss or low profits.

SSD, flash memory chips, and other storage chips are expensive. Smartphones, tablets, thin and lowend laptops like the HP Stream 11, and game consoles like the Nintendo Switch maybe causing a storage chip shortage which cause storage chip makers to become scalpers and sell their chips for very high prices because of a shortage in SSD chips, and high demand for SSD chips.

[Skeithex]

I agree SSD is pricey, hopefully once it drops in price it starts coming in a nicer metal frame that HDD is known for.

[froggyboy604]

I think a metal case will add a few extra dollars to the price of the SSD, but SSD makers maybe making very little money from selling SSD with a plastic case since the price of computer chips like memory chips and circuit boards and paying for online advertisements, and ads in magazines for promoting their SSD brand can cost a lot of money where SSD makers maybe losing money on low SSD sales months if the cost to buy SSD parts and advertisements to promote the SSD cost a lot of money, and the SSD maker don't raise the price of SSD drives as quickly.

PC storage drives don't always make enough money to survive. Most hard drive makers like Maxtor, Mitsubishi, NEC, etc no longer make hard drives or sold their factory to another company because it is not profitable enough for them to survive, and they can't compete with Western Digital, Seagate, and Toshiba which are the last three surviving hard drive makers according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_d ... ufacturers

[Skeithex]

By then the cost of a SSD should be the current price of HDDs, meaning HDDs wil be next to nothing unless they come out with huge data storage size to keep the prices up. Of course there is always the possibility of something better than SSDs coming out.

[froggyboy604]

I read a post on a tech blog that there would someday be faster hard drives which are as fast or faster than SSD in the future, and cost less money than a SSD.

There will still be many people who still need hard drives because their old computer is not compatible with SSDs, and it is cheaper to use hard drives than to replace their motherboard, CPU, and RAM to make their PC work with SSD.