hoba_rce

I just bought Seagate Backup Plus 5TB external USB 3 drive. For some reason the external box that contains Seagate Barracuda ST5000LM000 2,5" drive is 1/3 cheaper than the drive alone.... After a few minutes the box started to fail and disconnect and could not be connected again. I ran Crystal Disk info and found out that the drive quickly heats to over 55°C inside the box and refuses to work. I extracted the drive and connected it directly to SATA port in my cooled case and the drive worked fine until it reached 40°C after about an hour and random read/write errors started to occur. I placed a pot of cold water on top of the drive so it stayed below 35°C, managed to extract the data, reassembled the box and sent it for RMA. It seems like this drive has some serious heat issues that makes it fail when it heats up...