Maxtor Hard Drive Heating Problems

[t3chb0y]

I use the 250GB Maxtor ATA 133 Diamondmax 10 in my external hard drive..
Hard Drive

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144422

Enclosure :

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817145656

The thing is that I'm really fed up with the heat it gives off..

When the hard drive is on full load...the enclosure gets pretty hot...

However , often times ...many drive errors appear like partition corruption probably due to the heating of the hard drive..

Is there anything I could do to make it cooler or etc?

I regret buying a drive from Maxtor

 

[Gars]

maxtor is hot, pretty hot
im glad that they will no longer exist
its seems that you need to replace the enclosure with some liquid system
chek this
for sure u need better cooling

regards

 

[t3chb0y]

I don't have the money in my pocket to buy water cooling....way too expensive for me

 

[iss]

is the fan working in the enclosure?

 

[t3chb0y]

is the fan working in the enclosure?

yes , it is working but then even with the fan...the hard drive can't get cool enough ..

It's an improvement from my previous plastic enclosure where the drive overheats and then crashes...

I still need a more effective way to getting heat out from the hard drive

 

[iss]

I run Seagate and Western digital drives in USB 2.0 enclosures and have no problems with heat as long as the enclosure has a fan. if you dont have the money to replace the drive then your only viable option is to find ways to allow more air flow. thru the enclosure.