G+_Timothy Carey Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 I installed an SSD to replace my HDD. Now it seems my USB flash drives are getting hot when they haven't before. This happens even when I'm not transferring anything. What can I do? I had tried different flash drives. They are all 3.0 . Computer has all 3.0 I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Black Merc Posted September 21, 2017 Share Posted September 21, 2017 Could it be a glitch in the power system? Now that it does not have to maintain a spinning plater array, that surplus may be redirected to the USB subsystems. Can you lookup the power stats on the systems bios/uefi screens at boot? Or the analog way, voltmeter and an old USB thing opened up to measure the bus directly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Bret Gorman Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 probably a driver issue related to either usb or acpi. if you can plug your old drive back in and check the drivers/driver paths/versions and copy off to a thumb drive then replace the drive with the ssd and check the same, replace as necessary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 My guess is they're unrelated issues. My latest USB 3.0 thumbdrive gets warm too. Few things I read online suggest there's a problem with the thumbdrive. Could probably be the USB port too, but I wouldn't think so. Could stick the drive in another computer, Raspberry Pi, phone, etc and leave it for a while to see if it gets hot there too. Just my 2¢ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Bret Gorman Posted September 22, 2017 Share Posted September 22, 2017 my thoughts were if they didn't overheat before and were the same drives there is either a driver or power management issue causing the device to receive more power or not report back to the os that it's getting enough. Since it's usb 3, are the devices all usb 3 and reporting capability appropriately and is the bus appropriately lowering the voltage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Timothy Carey Posted September 24, 2017 Author Share Posted September 24, 2017 Well I didn't realize these new sandisk was getting hot or not. I am disabled and also I just bought these new ones to back up my data. And I was just leaving it in because I had to work on things during the whole process of getting the new SSD. Well, the USB 3.0 slash drive dropped out of windows file explorer. And the neighboring head set transmitter was hot. All other on the other side of the computer were cool but not a flash drive. I've never noticed USB 2.0. In the properties it gave me a choice to cache everything or not. And the other source was that you have to eject properly but then gave me the thing about if the power goes out to the drive then all could be lost. Just wondering if the caching of 58 GB could do that. Although my other drive is just getting warm. But the one is smaller that gets hotter. I just checked my USB 2 not even warm. Let me get this straight if the USB Port is blue inside it is USB 3. My computer also has one charging port. I have what appears to be 4 USB ports in all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Rainbow dashx86 Posted September 26, 2017 Share Posted September 26, 2017 This is the same thing I wound remand even if wasn't ssd; Reintsatlling the OS form the DVD or USB key that came with the pc. Of crose demanding on the computer's age you may have replace thing's like cooling fans as will as getting the dust out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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