External Hard-drive Temperature???, Are they supposed to get this hot? Options

[Lotus17]

Hello, I am new with external hard drive and their enclosures. I currently am running this: Seagate 160GB, 8MB Cache, 7,200RPM, inside a Rosewill RX30-U2FAB, Oxford 922 Chipset. Whenever I use this for a small period of time, 30 min or so, it gets really hot. Well, it gets hot. Is it supposed to do this? I am just afraid that the hard drive will burn up and become useless. Any info would help. Thanks

-Lotus

[ourmanflinty]

seagate have pretty good drive warranties, 5 years usually. You can go to their website and there are some diagnostic tools and a serial number checker / warranty validation. As for temperature, does the datasheet give you any oprational temperatures, again you could get this off the seagate website. Once you've checked that, run the drive on a marathon 24 hour session to prove it.