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 Heat
+Heat kills NVME drives. Maybe not immediately, but it shortens their life. Here is an ugly truth. The Go may suck at removing heat from the NVME, but there is a lot of hysteria out there too. Plain and simple truth is, a lot of people are looking at the stats with the wrong mindset and the wrong stats. So some points.
+*When looking at drive temps, only look at the 1 primary drive temp. In Hwinfo64 for example this is the first temp is what you should pay attention to. The Temp limits in the specs from the drive manufacturer reference this temp which is usually an average of the temperature sensors on the device. There are components like the ASIC that can run hotter without damage. So stick to the averaged temp.
+*When lookign at drive temps, do it while gaming. Gaming is where 90% of your drive life will be spent. Benchmarks, large file copies, installs are all the minorty of your drives life. Dont guage the drives thermal performance based solely on these things.
+*Installing a heatsink with minial airflow means you are going to be at the mercy of convection, for convection to work best you need as much surface area as you can manage. That was why I did my original 70mm heatsink on the VisonTek and it helped, was not perfect. Ran the best with the kickstand and hinges out of the stock back because even a tiny bit more airflow on the low end helped.
+*Heat is best conducted by conductive materals, but you dont want some coppe heatsink shorting something out. Use good non conductive thermal compounds. For nvme I like Thermal Grizzly. If you need to protect anything else, Kapton Tape.
+Avoid the garbage little sticker things for sale online. See this video https://youtu.be/OlyTHG4TgIg?si=m21a1GsGzGETj_u9