Ultra Fit USB 3.0: Excessive Heat

Just bought the UltraFit 64G, inserted it in the USB of my desktop and loaded some files onto it, about 40Gb and sure…the thing became hot as hell. Really hot, the thing that at first amazed me as a nice piece of engineering wasn’t, after all, that well engineered. Can’t be good for the internals to get that hot.

Upon inserting it in the USBport of my laptop, and using it in a more normal way, the temperature was much more acceptable, just hand warm, so I guess under  practical conditions, making a report, watching a movie, everything is acceptable.

But big data dumps seem to be a problem, and I really also hate to see it use that much battery power from the poor laptop’s battery.