the frame is cool but when I put my hand underneath the drive -- that's
where it's really hot. As I mentioned, I've had these drives for quite some
time and never experienced this until just recently.
I also did a simple test... turned the system off, opened the case, put my
hand under the hard drive and turned the power back on. By the time the
system got past the 30-second OS selection screen (I have 2 OS installed),
the drive was already pretty hot (about 45 seconds since the power on).
After about 20 minutes it became so hot that I couldn't keep my hand under
the drive. Then I turned the system off and about 15-20 seconds later the
drive underneath was already back to the room temperature....
I also tried running the system with the drives out of the case.... they
were getting as hot.