NVME Gen3 or 2.5" SSD for External Storage

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I mostly use laptops. I note the price of the cheaper NVME Gen 3 is close now to SSD prices.

My single external NVME I have gets very toasty with heavy use. Would the cooler running SSD's be more reliable long term.
I'm hoping to replace a few smaller SSD/HD with something faster and larger. Already have a few External 4 & 5TB mechanical 2.5" drives for long term storage.
Or are NVME going to be more useful going forward. Already have a few USB 3.0 enclosures I can use with 2.5"

I realise you have to to have all the ducks in the row (in terms of ports, cables, and interface chipsets) to get decent speeds from USB 3 and better.

I don't really have a suitable desktop to stuff a load of drives into. I don't want to spend a fortune either.
 
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What temp is toasty? It will almost certainly be whatever temp you are seeing is well within the operating range of the NVMe anyway. regardless of this, flash chips are meant to be running hot anyway, it's the controller chip that when too hot, will throttle down until temps settle, so effectively won't ever damage the drive.

An NVMe, even the lowest gen 3 spec will be far faster than a SATA SSD which will max out at 550MB/s read/write typically, and SATA just doesn't allow the IOPs that NVMe does from an SSD. But if it's just for storage then a cheap SATA is perfectly fine.

If you game too then Direct Storage in the long term will come into its own and improve performance of game loading and depending on res, fps too, so a Gen 3 NVMe would be the logical choice.
 
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