Does this get very hot like the similar SanDisk Ultra 3.0? I have been using it to run Linux from and it gets extremely hot - makes the laptop run hot
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Not so far. But it doesn't get a lot of read/writes, only the occasional backup write.
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yeah. it happens. the usb is very cheaply made and tends to overheat. i would only personally recommend this product for temporary use.
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I've had mine for a while and occasionally use it on my lap. I find the heat very tolerable. This Think Pad is cooler than my T41. IMO this one of the best laptops. I may be biased because this is my fourth Think Pad.
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The laptop does not get hot. Not at all!! As far as the battery life is concerned, we have had no issues!! Love this laptop!!
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The drive is powered through the usb and it does get very warm to the touch if you use it for more than a half hour so be very careful how long you use it as overheating could become an issue.
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Even running a full disk copy it didnt get that hot(122f). It's just a neat little box that allows you to use a mSata externally. Worked fine.
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I don't find it to be hot at all. I have sat for hours with it on my lap. Not at all hot compared to my past HP's. The heat vents on the right sideand it never gets really hot besides it keeps my coffee warm.
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I will test it tonight and see. Last time I checked though it performed at good speeds. But I am only using a 4700rpm drive so I may be maxing out the read/write on it anyways. But from my experience it performs a lot better then 2.0. Also another note is that if you plug this into a 3.0 port you don't need to use the extra USB cable for power. The 3.0 port can put out enough juice to power the whole thing. I didn't know this before I bought and honestly wasn't a big deal, but helpful to know now.
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No! It hasn't! Extremely hot without a Fan, I must mod a Fan for him:( (it must be if you want your hdd working 24/7). Anyway It's almost beautiful on the tablet with an MacPC :)
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I own the 1 TB model and also noticed the heat buildup. I keep my unit off unless I'm backing up data. Had it a year and so far, so good.
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The card does get very hot. You can increase the max fan speed to help cool it off. This will make the card louder but it's a trade off.
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Just as others have said, it is passive cooling and I have had some drives doing intensive work run on it for some days. The drives do get hot (or a lot warmer than usual) but nothing bad has happened. I will say that for regular work it should be fine but for intensive work, just keep an eye out. Also since it is passive cooling the temperature of your environment matters if you are in a very hot environment (climate or place) versus a cooler environment (my environment is mostly cool in temperature).
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the 3rd gen i7 was known for running hot, however this is a 4th gen so i do not know. try 1 of these if u r concerned about heat, Cooler Master NotePal U3 - Laptop Cooling Pad with 3 Movable Fansby Cooler Master. Amazon sells it for around 30 bucks, mine works great, as far as noisy i dont even hear the 3 80mm cooler fans running and i have hyper hearing
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It doesn't really get that hot. I put a small square of adhesive Velcro on the plastic shrink tube over the heatsink. Never had an overheat especially if it is open to the air.
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I can't comment on the Sandisk but I have the 128GB Lexar in the GoPro 4 Black and seems to run fine for 4k 30fps and 1080p 120fps. No problems so far. However, data transfers over the Lexar USB adapter on USB 3 run @ 58mb/s, so I was expecting a little faster e.g. the advertised 95mb/s. Definitely using USB 3.0 combined with a 550mb/s read/write SSD and i7 so no bottleneck. 58mb/s is fast enough though!
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I don't know how hot the external rugged drives with traditional disk drives run, but these SSD drives don't get very hot. I have two of them, they get warmish if you are really pushing a lot of data in/out, but never hot. Pretty cool if left idle.
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well if you are running the drive 24/7 as a backup or other reason, those drives do get hot. The life of the drive could be shortened by overheating.