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Re: WD black too hot to touch

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<mbjorn@y7mail.com> wrote

> I was testing some Caviar black 2TB drives pulled from a failed pizzabox 
> server.

> The first 2 passed okay.  As it takes several hours for the long test,
> I left one running overnight.  When I got up, I found that Seatools
> was frozen about 60% through. So I turned off, and tried to unplug
> that drive, but it burnt my fingers.

> How can a drive get so hot?

By not being run in a decent config with air blowing over it or
even decent thermal conduction to the drive stack its mounted in.

> I presume they are made to spin full speed for long periods.

Yes, but not run bare on the desk with some of them.

> BTW, it was not mounted in a case, just lying on the bench for testing.

And that is the problem.

> Ambient air temperature would have been no more than 20 Celcius.

I've reported you to the RSPCFGTRES, you'll be soorree... 

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