[jeffbee]

It's not likely that thermal issues would cause bad reliability on these things. At worst you could expect intermittently bad performance. You can check for this condition with `nvme smart-log`. If your device was often overheated, it would have "critical composite temperature time" non-zero. My Samsung that has been in service for years and has no thermal solution has a value of 1 minute and I happen to know that is because I heated it with a hair dryer to find out what would happen if it crossed the critical temperature.

[short_sells_poo]

"I happen to know that is because I heated it with a hair dryer to find out what would happen if it crossed the critical temperature."

Ah this is a fantastic and true hacker mindset :)

Willing to tamper with fairly expensive equipment just for the heck of it.

[dinvlad]

Ha, interesting! Makes sense, the drive is supposed to just throttle itself before it can reach unsafe temps. I’ll def try to check, didn’t know the drive recorded that - thanks for the tip. In any case, now I know RMA is in order