We took note of the drive’s temperature during some of our benchmarking runs.
The Netac NV7000-Q doesn't come with a heatsink but does have a thin thermal pad built into the top product label. Netac relies on this together with intelligent temperature control technology to keep the drive cool in operation. To see how well this works we used the drive as is, without using the hefty built-in heatsink on our Gigabyte AORUS X670E Xtreme test rig motherboard.
The drive is remarkably consistent in its thermal performance. It didn't go above 54° C in any of the tests, which is a comfortable 31° C below the stated maximum operating temperature of 85°C. The drive averaged 54°C for both the 4K and non-4K based tests.