I don't think 42C is at all hot for an NVME SSD. But I don't recall the suggested limit offhand. > TO HAVE BACKUPS Agree. I admire the diagnostic skills and i

I don't think 42C is at all hot for an NVME SSD. But I don't recall the suggested limit offhand. > TO HAVE BACKUPS Agree. I admire the diagnostic skills and ingenuity to recover the data, but was thinking I would just restore from backup in the same situation. But I'm weird. I have a "home lab" file server with a true server H/W that my desktop and laptop back up to as well as a remote server that the local one backs up to.