Question about SSD storage temperature

I have a question about the storage temperature of a ssd drive, which is rated at 85C max.

One day I placed a newly bought ssd drive into my car's rear trunk. Then I drove roughly 90 minutes on the freeway to reach home. Driving the freeway apparently raised the trunks' metal floor to a temperature of around 50C (more on this later). Although the trunks' metal floor is insulated by a carpet/mat, the carpet felt warm and apparently heat was conducted into the cardboard packaged of the SSD drive because when I opened up the package, the ssd drive felt as warm as say the bottom of a laptop computer. I'm being subjective in describing the ssd drive feeling warm because I didn't have any instant tools to check the exact temperature.

I was able to estimate the trunk's metal floor to be 50C because later I placed a thermometer between the carpet and the metal floor and drove on the freeway for at least 30 minutes to see what the metal floor temperature would be. I checked the temperature immediately after parking the car.

So my question is this: was there enough heat conducted into the ssd drive to raise it beyond it's storage temperature limit and to significantly reduce its operating lifetime and cause damage? Would the maximum temperature be limited to 50C because the heat source is at 50C?

 

i highly doubt there is anything to worry about. you didn't come close to the threshold, nor was it sustained, and even if the ssd reached 50c it wasn't 90 minutes worth. plus, since there are no moving parts in an ssd, there's no mechanically connected parts to get bent out of shape.

 

Should be fine. Rated to 85C sounds about right (most computer components are in that range +/-10C or so), and you were c.a. 50C at the worst for a brief time. Likely that the drive didn't even get that warm, cardboard doesn't conduct heat very well. Plus, it is entirely likely that the drive, while being trucked to wherever you bought it from, reached this temp.