NVME-SNDK-VS-TEMP(1)

💖 NVME-SNDK-VS-TEMP(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this page lives in the NVMe Manual and it's literally about printing out your drive's temperature tea ☕ — like, all the thermal stats, laid out. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

nvme-sndk-vs-temperature-stats — display temperature-related statistics 🌡️💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

nvme [<global-options>] sndk vs-temperature-stats <device>

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so for the NVMe device you hand over, this prints the temperature statistics. that's the whole vibe. simple, iconic ✨

the <device> parameter is mandatory and it's the NVMe character device (ex: /dev/nvme0). no device, no stats, periodt 🙈

heads up: this only works on Sandisk devices that support this feature. results for any other device are undefined — like, genuinely undefined, not "undefined bestie we'll figure it out". 💀

here's the expected status and description situation, no cap 👑:

• The current composite temperature — device temperature 🌡️
• Warning Composite TEMPerature threshold — temp of overheating 🔥
• Critical Composite TEMPerature threshold — temp of critical overheating 🚨
• Device Initiated Thermal Throttling support status — 0 = unsupported, 1 = supported
• Host Controlled Thermal Management support — 0 = unsupported, 1 = supported
• Thermal Management Temperature 1 (Light throttle) — temp to start light throttle 🌸
• Thermal Management Temperature 1 Transition Counter — # times switched into light throttle
• Thermal Management Temperature 1 Total Time — # seconds spent in light throttle ⏱️
• Thermal Management Temperature 2 (Heavy throttle) — temp to start heavy throttle 🥵
• Thermal Management Temperature 2 Transition Counter — # times switched into heavy throttle
• Thermal Management Temperature 2 Total Time — # seconds spent in heavy throttle ⏱️
• Thermal Shutdown Threshold — temp of device shutdown 💀

on success it returns 0, error code otherwise. slay ✅

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

✨ GLOBAL OPTIONS ✨

these bad boys are defined at the top-level nvme command, and they're available to this subcommand too. iykyk 💜

• --dry-run — print the command that would be executed, but don't actually execute it. it's giving "look but don't touch" 🫶
• --no-ioctl-probing — disable probing for 64-bit IOCTL support.
• --no-retries — disable retry logic on transient errors. one shot, one opportunity 😭
• -o <fmt>, --output-format=<fmt> — set the reporting format to normal, tabular, json, or binary. only one output format may be used at a time, so pick your fighter 💅
• --output-format-version=<version> — select the output format version. version 1 uses the original field naming, while version 2 (default) provides more consistent and script-friendly field names. other versions are rejected 🚫
• --quiet — suppress informational messages. errors are still reported, and --quiet cancels any --verbose for the library log level. shhh 🤫
• --set-options=<key=value>[,<key=value>...] — set libnvme library options for this invocation. supported keys are force-4k, mi-probe-enabled, test-base-dir and test-sysfs-dir.
• --timeout=<ms> — set the timeout for the command in milliseconds. infinite or -1 waits without a time limit (0xffffffff). no clock-watching energy ⏰
• -v, --verbose — increase the level of detail in the output. may be specified multiple times to further increase verbosity. the more the merrier ✨

these options can also be set as machine-wide defaults in nvme-cli.conf(5). a command-line flag always overrides the file. file found dead in a ditch, flag ate 👑

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✨ EXAMPLES ✨

1. displays the temperature stats for the device:

# nvme sndk vs-temperature-stats /dev/nvme0

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✨ NVME ✨

part of the nvme-user suite. one of us, one of us 💖

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okay that's the whole page bestie, go read your temps 🌈🦋

NVMe · 10/30/2026 · NVME-SNDK-VS-TEMP(1) — mwah, that's the version, the date, and the manual name all wrapped up in a little bow 🎀 love u, go touch grass (but check your drive's thermals first) 💜