{"id":13058,"date":"2021-12-11T14:30:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T14:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=13058"},"modified":"2021-12-11T14:30:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T14:30:47","slug":"is-it-normal-for-external-drive-to-get-hot","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/windows-7\/is-it-normal-for-external-drive-to-get-hot\/5517.html","title":{"rendered":"Is It Normal For External Drive To Get Hot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a one terabyte external hard drive which i plan to use for auto backup&#8230;but while testing the connectivity to my PC recently, i noticed it became quite hot. I am uneasy about relying totally on this drive for backup&#8230;if it is on all the time&#8230;will it get to hot at some point and stop working.<br \/>\nit is an ULTRA Speed.<br \/>\nI run Win7 64bit and have 4 gb RAM and 3.07 gigahertz Intel Core2 Duo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":21},"question-category":[42],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-13058","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-windows-7"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/13058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=13058"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=13058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}