As a leader in designing and developing Flash storage, Cervoz has engineered solutions to overheating to go along with its modules. Here are our three main solutions for thermal management and overheating protection.

Dynamic Thermal Throttling

On the firmware front, Cervoz offers a feature known as Dynamic Thermal Throttling for its Flash products. This mechanism prevents the module from overheating due to large volumes of data write-in in a short period of time. In cases when the module heats up to a temperature cap, the function automatically slows down performance and thus drops temperature before the module overheats.

This feature will induce cooling until the device returns to a stable temperature. Once the temperature has decreased to a previously determined acceptable level, transfer speed will return to its optimum level.

M.2 PCIe Heat Dissipation Solution

On the hardware front, Cervoz provides two heat dissipation solutions for its M.2 PCIe modules. Since these modules are known for their fast data-processing capabilities, they are most prone to overheating. 

For the standard temperature M.2 module, we offer a graphene padding that is sufficient for heat dissipation in a typical room-temperature setting. Meanwhile, for the wide temperature M.2 module, the Cervoz heatsink kit is designed to effectively help with heat dissipation under extreme temperatures (-40˚C to 85˚C). The unique fin design has been proven to accelerate heat dissipation and thus maintain stable data transfer.

Our tests on the Cervoz heatsink found that it can reduce operating temperatures by up to 15˚C compared to that of devices operating without it.

Cervoz FlashMonitor

On the software front, Cervoz presents the proprietary Cervoz FlashMonitor, free to download with the purchase of any of our storage products. The monitoring system shows in real time how Cervoz storage modules are doing, with temperature being one of the data it tracks.

In the “Tool” tab, users can set up the system to send email and pop-up alerts when the module’s temperature reaches a pre-set threshold. This automatic, real-time alert keeps users informed of how the device is doing and whether it needs to be powered off to cool down.

For any additional information on these solutions, contact our Cervoz Sales Rep now!