Me either, and in those cases the controller - which will be cooler and thus more reliably functioning should be aware and throttle due to the overshoot on the NAND temps anyway. I'm sure that could be a problem on uncooled arrays of SSDs perhaps, but the odds of running into that in a single drive with just general airflow would have to be miniscule (unless you want to hand out warranty replacements all the time).Or just don't use a heatsink, but then most drives will throttle under sustained heavy read/write. It may be possible to overheat the flash if you cool only the controller, but I haven't heard of this happening.
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That's how my ITX board is too (ASUS Strix Z270i). It soaks horribly and is basically useless for cooling at all - in fact, the SSD is much more resistant to throttling with the top off and no heatsink at all. The PCH runs 2-3C cooler that way as well, so it's a very confusing use argument. Of course, aesthetically speaking, it looks like utter crap that way - so I use it anyway.Interesting thanks. My Asrock motherboard has a heatsink for the 2 M.2 slots, but due to the ITX smallness, it’s shared with the H470 chipset. I guess the chipset and drive are keeping each other comfortably warm
Ah that's great then, I saw the three (or 4?) lower slots, and I remember their first case was ITX so I thought this was just mATX at most.
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I just received my Intel NUC 10th gen i7 built into an Akasa Turing FX case. It is an extraordinary experience after decades of noisy computing. This will serve as the work PC in my home office, but will also be used as a music streaming source in that home office. I waited for years until such small fanless computers would become powerful enough for my professional use. It is certainly a lot faster than my old home office computer, and fast enough for anything other than intensive CAD/CAM, gaming, and perhaps video editing etc. I opted for a 1Tb SSD and one bank of 32 mb memory (if I need more, I can simply add another memory card). See here for more info: https://nucblog.net/2020/07/akasa-turing-fx-review-frost-canyon-fanless-case/ I followed that review's advice and had TDP lowered to 25 Watt. It is not a cheap option, of course, particularly if you cannot do the build yourself, but complete silence is quite a bit better than fairly quiet.
A super nice build for a fanless NUC. Not sure it's something I'd go for but I do want to build a slient rig at some point and will keep looking.
That's close to what I have now. I've built using a giant Cooler Master Cosmos case using a large Artic Freezer 7 CPU cooler and Noctua fans running reduced speeds. I believe the power supply fan is the worst offender but the box is still noisy even with all SSD drives. I've got some ideas of updating my current box with some more modern parts and a silent power supply at some point. Built this box in 2008 so it's due I guess.
Since then I have tried with TuneIn internet radio and the problem is the same, so it is not a Spotify setting but something in the computer.
I haven't encountered this but it sounds like some kind of polling issue which is momentarily breaking the connection. Unfortunately this is probably due to a driver implementation with either the USB hub itself or the internal controller. I'd check for any late release drivers for every device related to USB, networking, BT, etc. It could be another device/app accessing the audio subsystem briefly as well... though that would probably be a more pronounced interruption.
