@xcalibur: you said “the metal gets burning hot when I transfer gigabytes, and even when I leave it in without doing anything, it’s hot right after ejecting” — I agree if it gets hot when there is data transfer, but when it is idle doing nothing, what makes it get hot?
In my logic, if it gets hot when idle, it will be no surprise if it overheat and fail when it is “in action” (i.e. huge data transfer). One thing to clarify, did you copy files into it straight away “out of the box” or did you reformat it before transferring anything into it?
My primary concern (which I guess others’ too) is whether this excessive heat will damage our laptop (i.e. USB port or burn/melt the palmrest area where the USB port is located)?
Sandisk does provide warranty but only on the stick (which makes sense), not our laptop neither USB port. Therefore I guess many would rather not to use, or at least use with high caution.
