4TB external SSD runs too hot to touch and may now be fried
M2 Studio Ultra, base configuration, just upgraded to Sonoma 14.1.2
Trebleet aluminium Thunderbolt 3 enclosure
Sabrient 4TB fast SSD
My 4TB external SSD seems to have fried itself - it became extremely hot even though it was not in use and then I received several disc not ejected properly messages from OSX although the connection had not been touched.
The reason I am asking this question here is that the SSD temperature seemed to scale with the CPU activity on my Mac, cooling down when the Mac was less busy, and not vary with the SSD traffic which was actually zero at the time, and this seems odd to me.
I had just upgraded to Sonoma 14.1.2 and when the problem happened I got multiple 'SSD not ejected properly' messages one after the other, although the physical connection to the Mac was not touched. I'm assuming this is because the drive was failing? Now the drive is not visible in Finder even after restart / reconnect, except for once when it did briefly appear for about a second. Now if left connect it just just heats up rapidly so has been disconnected!
So the question is why did the dive temperature vary with the Mac workload when not in use? My other old 256GB SSD just sits there day in day out without issue - typical!
Thanks!
iMac 27″, macOS 10.15
