Red Drive overheating

[Tomislav Hecimovic]

I 'have noticed lately a significant overheating of Red Drive,
i'm pretty sure that in this past four years this this 320 Gb drive has never been that hot during recording or transferring
and yes firewire 800 stopped working the other day, 400 and usb (that i have actually plugged for the first time ) still works.

So my question for Red or anybody else having the same experience.

1. Do we have any lifetime predictions of drives that ar installed in those first R1's ?
2. Is this overheating a sign that something will go wrong anytime soon ?
3 What is our option on FW port fix ( London. USA) ?
3. Any option of showing these items in store again ?

Thx

 

[Brian Merlen]

If its running hot you should at the very least get a back up option in case it goes down on you. Whether its more used red drives (which are cheap now) CF or SSD redmags is up to you, but you will be thankful you had back up media if it goes down on a gig. I don't think Red will be selling them from now on, they seemed to indicate it was there last batch quite some time back. I see a lot of used drives for sale though and at the cheap prices you can buy a ton of them per gb compared to the redmags and CF cards

 

[Tomislav Hecimovic]

Funny thing, today it works normally, no overheating on recording or offloading.
but yes prices are down a lot for used drive, so that would be our next option
and there is a backup always available, and a bunch of 8Gb Lexar's from group buy here on RU long time ago.

 

[Martin Weiss]

Real names...

 

[Tomislav Hecimovic]

Posted on real names section hope it is ok now