lifedrive becomes hot

[ejosepha]

Does anyone else's LD become rather hot. When I use the wifi and web browser to download large pages, the unit become pretty hot. Enough to want to put it down. During normal usage, though, it seems to be ok. Is the HD overheating like this normal?

[bukwit_jackal]

Can't say i've noticed my LD getting "hot" even after over an hour of wifi. Then again I've kept it in its hard case for a week without taking it out and its been getting warm but hardly hot. If its hot to touch then there maybe something not right with your LD and I'd suggest taking it back to where you had originally purchased it for advice. HTH

[Kitten]

I've noticed my LifeDrive gets a bit warm during usage. But not hot. If your's is getting hot, there's probably something wrong and you should take it back.

[Steerpike999]

But NOT Hot. The P1 website actually says that it may get warm during use because of the HD.
If it gets hot enough that you have to put it down, then that doesn't sound right

Tony

[sleepy600]

I experienced this problem also. i had wifi on and bluetooth on doing transfers, then transfers through usb cable because of battery drain and as i was transferring my music (2 gigs) it it extremely hot. i had to transfer my music a few times because the LD did not recognize chinese characters. got errors every time it ran into chinese character named files so i may have copied 500 mb - 1 gig then deleted them 2 - 3 times. have not gotten hot after that though.

[jomo]

Does anyone else's LD become rather hot. When I use the wifi and web browser to download large pages, the unit become pretty hot. Enough to want to put it down. During normal usage, though, it seems to be ok. Is the HD overheating like this normal?

Nope. Not the hard drive. It's the battery. The battery uses a chemical reaction to generate electricity. The more juice you use, the greater the chemical reaction. Under normal usage, ie using your device to check a memo or maybe listen to a song or two, the battery is under a modest load. However, if you conduct intensive usage that drains the battery at a faster rate (wifi plus large hard-disk usage), the waste heat cannot be dissipated to air faster than it is created, so the device becomes hot. This happens all the time with cell-phones and is exacerbated by a large battery, as is in the Life Drive. I owned a Sharp Zaurus, which got locked in some kind of high-CPU-usage loop, draining the battery like the flood-gate was opened and it became physically hot to the touch.