External mSata ssd very hot.

Having tried HWiNFO64 to get temperature of external drive. = 53/54 Celsius
Kingston mSata SUV500MS 480GB in aluminium enclosure via short cable to USB C/Thunderbolt socket.
Machine uses AHCI.
Task Manager shows ssd at gentle use but is nearly too hot to keep hand on casing.
After some minutes ... C: drive at zero, CPU at 3 percent or less, mSata ssd at zero percent, memory at 22 percent .... still very hot.
Aluminium enclosure is in free air resting on an acrylic flat surface (part of a stand to improve laptop ventilation).

Now after more minutes at idle ... max temperature up to 55. Shows activity in all areas of zero.
Internal C: drive nvme = 29 max.
Chipset max = 40.

Is this mSata ssd drive going to have a very short life ?

As I understand it, this is not a (PCIe) NVMe SSD, but a SATA one, with an mSATA connector, not an M.2 connector. I think it should run at a lower temp. Maybe a problem somewhere in the USB link. If possible, I would connect it to a USB-A port, to compare.

"Is this mSata ssd drive going to have a very short life ?"

No, because the temperatures are taken in to account in the SSD design.
There is nothing wrong with those internal temperatures.

The power dissipated in an SSD has a very small source so it gets hot, the memory cell chips.
The casing of your external drive is essentially the heatsink to the very compact solid state devices inside.
In a sense the aluminium casing is too small and inadequate it should have much better heat dissipating qualities, but that would not be attractive to consumers whose expectation is a very small external SSD drive.

A desktop HDD is much chunkier and the storage method is very different. The power is used mainly to spin up the drive platters and to keep up the revs. The control electronics power is a lot less.
In a Desktop PC HDDs are usually in the airflow thru the case, a much better heat removal scenario.

Then there is the placing and calibration of the temperatures sensors themselves...another ball game.

Going with a new Samsung 860 Evo after looking at the power consumption comparisons on L1.2 state and when in operation.
Better fuel consumption, less to waste as heat. Used for daily storage so not interested in speed, just dont want any more spinning discs in this context Still use them for backups though..
But still reading that magnetic spinners have a much longer life and have years of proven mass reliability whereas even the flash proponents expect/assume charge based storage will fade over time and not be as long lived.

As some of my files (images of historical paper documents) have been on various drives for over 20 years I am using belt and braces and have copies of backups and vice-versa on spinners and flash.
Just wanted something less fragile and more portable for use in various places and between two machines where network is not an option.

So thank you for opinions and suggestions.
Over and out.
Paul