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NVMe M2 damaged by wrong m2 adapter?

I bought a M2 NVMe drive (Samsung PM991) and an M2-to-USB-adapter.

I did not check thouroughly the adapter capability, it was not compatible for NVMe-drives but an NGFF. The drive was not recognized and the housing of the adapter was hot.

I disconnected the drive, bought a NVMe-compatible M2-USB-adapter, assembled it and now I’m getting a overcurrent error when I connect the drive (2 computer and 2 different cables checked).

When I connect the NVMe-compatible USB-adapter without a M2-disk it is correctly recognized as a Realtek RTL9201 USB adapter.

Now the question: is it possible that I had damaged the drive by inserting it in the wrong M2-USB adapter? Or was the M2-drive simply dead on arrival?
Or to be more precise: does a NVMe-drive get electrically damaged when inserted in a NGFF-only adapter?

I’ve been assembling computer hardware for more than 30 years now so I hope it was not a mishandling problem.