What should normal/safe operating temperature be for a M.2 NVMe drive?

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tibo1010

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Dear All,

I have a Samsung 960 Pro 512MB M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe drive. Does anyone know what the normal/safe operating temperature should be for this drive or any M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe based drive? My 960 Pro has an average operating temperature of 44 degrees Celsius. This is during web browsing, having multiple MS Office documents open and running several Virtual Machines.

I have this drive installed on a Gigabyte X299 Aorus Gaming 9 motherboard in the bottom-most M.2 slot (directly below the PCH) which I believe would offer the best thermals.

I'd be grateful for your comments
 

tibo1010

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rgd1101, many thanks for your prompt reply. This is probably a silly question but what will be the effect of running this drive above the recommended maximum of 70°C? The reason I ask is that when it hits the peak of Summer the ambient room temp will rise and thus my drive temp could theoretically exceed 70°C
 
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