Using the type IIB background of [1] — a gravity dual to a large-N thermal QCD-like theory in the presence of N f thermal quarks — we calculate the chemical potential μ C as a function of temperature due to a U(1) (cf. U(N f ) ~ SU(N f ) × U(1)) gauge field living on the world volume of N f space-time-filling D7-branes wrapped around a four-cycle in a resolved warped deformed conifold along with (M)N (fractional) D3-branes, and show that for the Ouyang embedding, $ {{\left. {\frac{{\partial {\mu_C}}}{{\partial T}}} \right|}_{{{N_f}}}}<0 $ (imlying what one expects: $ {{\left. {\frac{{\partial S}}{{\partial {N_f}}}} \right|}_T}>0 $ ) up to linear order in the embedding parameter (which we take to be real and slightly less than unity). By explicitly verifying that $ {{\left. {\frac{{\partial {\mu_C}}}{{\partial {N_f}}}} \right|}_T}>0 $ up to linear order in the embedding parameter, we demonstrate the possible thermodynamical stability of the type IIB background to that order. Analogous to [2], we then obtain a local (as the resolved warped deformed conifold does not possess a ‘third’ global killing isometry along the ‘original’ angular variable ψ ∈ [0, 4π] for implementing SYZ mirror symmetry) M-theory uplift of type IIB background by first obtaining the local type IIA mirror using SYZ mirror symmetry near $ \left( {{\theta_{1,2 }},\psi } \right)=\left( {\left\langle {{\theta_{1,2 }}} \right\rangle, \left\{ {0,2\pi, 4\pi } \right\}} \right) $ and then oxidizing the so-obtained type IIA background to M theory. We then take two limits of this uplift: (i) $ {g_s}\ll 1,{g_s}{N_f}\ll 1,\frac{{{g_s}{M^2}}}{N}\ll 1,g_s^2M{N_f}\ll 1,{g_s}M\gg 1,{g_s}N\gg 1 $ similar to [1] effected by $ M \sim {\epsilon^{{-\frac{3d }{2}}}},N\sim {\epsilon^{-19d }},{g_s}\sim {\epsilon^d},d>0 $ and $ \epsilon \leq \mathcal{O}\left( {{10^{-2 }}} \right) $ ; (ii) the second ‘MQGP limit’ $ \frac{{{g_s}{M^2}}}{N}\ll 1,{g_s}N\gg 1 $ for finite g S , M effected by: $ {g_s}\sim \epsilon, M\sim {\epsilon^{{-\frac{3d }{2}}}},N\sim {\epsilon^{-39d }},d>0,\epsilon \lesssim 1 $ . The second limit is more suited for the study of QGP (See [3]) than (i), and due to the finiteness of the string coupling can meaningfully only be addressed within an M-theoretic framework. For both limits, in this process we obtain a black M3-brane solution whose near-horizon geometry near the θ 1,2 = 0, π branches, preserves $ \frac{1}{4} $ supersymmetry. Interestingly, assuming the formula for $ \frac{\eta }{s} $ of [4] obtained for only radial-coordinate-dependent metric (i.e. μ C = 0) to also be valid for the type IIA mirror and its local M-theory up-lift having frozen the angular dependence, we obtain the value of $ \frac{\eta }{s} $ using the M theory uplift to be exactly equal to $ \frac{1}{{4\pi }} $ — there is no angular dependence in $ {G_{{tt,rr,{{\mathbf{R}}^3}}}} $ (partly justifying the assumption, further supported by the fact that the aforementioned μC can be tuned to be very small) — for both limits. In the same spirit, the diffusion constant for both, types IIB/IIA backgrounds, comes out to be the reciprocal of the temperature. The D = 11 supergravity action (Einstein-Hilbert + Gibbons-Hawking-York surface + Flux + $ \mathcal{O}\left( {\mathrm{R}4} \right) $ terms) receives the dominant contributions near $ \left\langle {{\theta_{1,2 }}} \right\rangle =0,\pi $ , where there are poles. Introducing an appropriate angular cut-off ϵ θ and using the $ \left\langle {{\theta_{1,2 }}} \right\rangle ={\epsilon_{\theta }},\pi -{\epsilon_{\theta }}\hbox{-}\mathrm{local} $ uplift the specific heat from the finite part of the action (which is found to be cut-off-independent) turns out to be positive indicative of the thermodynamical stability of the uplift. An asymptotically-linear-dilaton-gravity-type interpretation can be given to the relevant counter-terms in the limit (i). Further, it is verified that the black M3-brane entropy $ S\sim r_h^3 $ from M-theoretic thermodynamical methods as well as the horizon area calculated from the starting type IIB, mirrory type IIA and the black M3-brane solutions.