Some drives are sold with a heatsink together, and those are very nice for keeping them cool. Now, if you have a Gen 4 drive, those get super hot, and you should at least make sure it has some form of heatsink, either from the motherboard, or aftermarket. Most good motherboards will come with a heatsink for the NVMe nowadays, but if your drive lacks one, as long as you're not stressing the drive by doing a ton of reads and writes, you ought to be fine. Most NVMe drives have a sticker on it that will say 'do not remove', and that is because the sticker isn't paper, but copper, and it is meant to be a heatspreader. Typically for PCI-e Gen 3 NVMes, they won't get hot enough to be problematic - the part that generates the most heat and is the most sensitive to heat is the controller, on the frontside of the NVMe's PCB.

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