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  "status": "shipping",
  "advantages": [],
  "limitations": [
    {
      "text": "Light and heavy throttling are examples, not fixed performance-loss percentages; these counters do not enumerate every vendor thermal action.",
      "citationIds": [
        "base23",
        "nvmelog"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "supersedes": [],
  "supersededBy": [],
  "firstSeen": null,
  "lastSeen": null,
  "updated": "2026-10-16",
  "slug": "host-controlled-thermal-management",
  "term": "NVMe Host Controlled Thermal Management",
  "aliases": [
    "HCTM",
    "NVMe HCTM"
  ],
  "definition": "NVMe Host Controlled Thermal Management is a controller feature through which a host configures temperature targets for automatic transitions to lower-power active power states or vendor-specific thermal actions.",
  "note": "Feature Identifier 10h sets TMT1 and TMT2 in kelvins; they are distinct from warning and critical composite thresholds. A zero disables the respective HCTM setting. [base23] SMART transition counts and action timers describe HCTM activity, with times in seconds and saturation at 0xFFFFFFFF; zero can mean no recorded activity or an unimplemented field. [base23] [nvmelog]",
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    "thermal-throttling-ssd",
    "nvme-composite-temperature",
    "nvme-smart-log",
    "nvme-warning-composite-temperature-time",
    "nvme-critical-composite-temperature-time"
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  "citations": [
    {
      "id": "base23",
      "title": "NVM Express Base Specification 2.3: Figure 210 (pp. 214-217), temperature hysteresis section 5.2.26.1.3.1, HCTM Figure 417 (p. 410)",
      "url": "https://nvmexpress.org/wp-content/uploads/NVM-Express-Base-Specification-Revision-2.3-2025.08.01-Ratified.pdf",
      "accessed": "2026-10-15"
    },
    {
      "id": "nvmelog",
      "title": "libnvme v1.15: nvme_smart_log field definitions (July 2025)",
      "url": "https://github.com/linux-nvme/libnvme/blob/v1.15/doc/man/nvme_smart_log.2",
      "accessed": "2026-10-15"
    }
  ]
}