We took note of the drive’s temperature during some of our benchmarking runs.
Kingston's DC3000ME enclosure design includes a series of ribs on top and bottom to aid with cooling. Under benchmarking, the hottest the drive got was 63°C when the drive was running the Web File Server 64K test, which is close to the quoted maximum operating temperature of 70°C. The drive averaged 50.4°C when running our benchmarks.