External Hard Drive Overheating

I used the WD 2TB My Passport external hard drive to back up my 2 TB Brennan B2 music library. It worked very well. I also used a powered USB hub to connect as the download speeds are very fast. One thing I ought to mention is because the download speeds are so fast, I recommend placing a fan in front of the Brennan B2 as it can get hot. In fact, before I put the fan on my B2 froze and I had to hard close to shut it off to cool it. After using the fan I had no more problems with overheating. I did not have any problems with the external hard drive overheating. It took me about 3 days to download my music library as I have used about 500 GB on my B2 and I only ran the external hard drive for about 4 hours each day to avoid overheating. The other thing I have to recommend is the compact size of the external hard dive, 3 x 4 x 3/8, as it does not take up a lot of room.

Excellent External hard drive.

I use it as an external hard drive for photos.

Protects my WD external hard drive.

This is my third external hard drive, work great.

This external hard drive houses all my photos.

Fast external hard drive. Works well.

Bought to use on an internal hard drive, to make it and external hard drive.

This Hard Drive Case is very sturdy and is a great external protector for your hard drive. Great buy!

I love, I repeat love SSD drives and this enclosure is my new favorite. SSD's are fantastic for a variety of reason. First, they are much less fragile than an old spinning disk hard drive. SSD are silent, which is nice. They are also so much more compact. Making the portability of these leaps and bounds better than the old hard disks. But what really separates an SSD is the speed. They are so much more faster. And with this enclosure supporting M.2, USB-C 3.2 compatible SSD drives, I was blown away with the speeds. This little guy is blazing fast. It can handle anything I throw at it with ease and makes transferring files a breeze. Saves so much time working with this drive. I bought a fast NVMe M.2 SSD to install and was off and running. The toolless set-up was very easy to do and took no time at all to install the drive into this enclosure. Comes with a little thermal pad to eliminate overheating which is fantastic. No one wants to lose speed from overheating and throttling, and this prevents that. The external heatsinks that are built into this case further prevent overheating making sure the drive runs optimally at all times. I've used it for a couple 4k editing projects so far and have noticed no slow downs at all. It cruises along handling everything effortlessly. And it is so small and convenient, it is really fantastic. I also like that they give you a USB c cable too. You can never have too many of those. I am super happy with this enclosure and its size and performance, it is excellent. [I have received this product in exchange for my honest review]