It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Atomfried_Fallout on 2024-08-19 21:17:06.

While I'm hoarding for some years now I finally got the time and money to making a backup of my movie collection on a second server with one 8TB hard drive that will serve as my parents media server, but copying to it at around 100 MiB/s for 2 hours by now the HDD got nearly too hot to touch and I couldn't find any info if they will throttle down to prevent overheating or if it's fine/not fine for them to get that hot.

So my question is if they can too hot just on their own?

Edit: The drive is basically in the open air right now but with no fan/airflow.