In Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden, my Fanxiang S910Max 1TB keeps overheating and dropping speed. Why is this happening?

When loading high-fidelity environment models, the Fanxiang S910Max controller temperature spiked to 84°C - 89°C, causing read speeds to plummet from 10 GB/s to a pathetic 2.1 GB/s. This kind of performance dive made me seriously question the thermal management of PCIe 5.0 drives. Initially, I tried enabling power-saving mode in Windows, but that was a mistake; it didn't lower the temps and actually pushed loading times up to 40 seconds due to constant link-state switching. I eventually decided to rig a 4cm directional fan directly above the M.2 heatsink and set the disk power plan to High Performance. Checking HWiNFO, I saw the controller temps drop back to 62°C - 67°C. It wasn't a smooth ride—during the initial fan setup, voltage fluctuations caused a brief recognition error until I reseated the drive and locked the PCIe link speed. Now, the stuttering during scene loads is completely gone, with response times staying rock steady at 12ms. While physically modifying the airflow is a bit of a hassle, it's the only way to kill the thermal throttling. I used a system benchmark tool to save these final thermal parameters.