They can definitely get very very hot though different batches seem to have different thermal characteristics.
I bought one from Amazon and whilst it got hot, it was okay.
I bought another one from Flubit (who sourced it from a 3rd party seller, not Amazon) and the heat it gives off when plugged into the side of the laptop is just ridiculous. Sufficiently worrying for me not to leave it plugged in as I could feel a noticeable amount of heat coming from that side of the laptop (which was otherwise much cooler).
Besford
7 Jul 16#6
Postage cost has to be in the headline price, OP!
CS82
7 Jul 16#7
I returned mine recently, gets far too hot during even light use, write speeds were quite disappointing too; typically 20-30mb/sec. Got a 64gb off Amazon Lightning deals for under £10, still didn't want to keep it though.
yubious
7 Jul 16#8
having the same problem with mine, have sandisk not acknowledged the issue?
Mang0
7 Jul 16#9
I can confirm these do get hot even if they are just plugged in (with power & not in use)
Still works fine though, I'm sure it'll burn out in the future :smiley:
alex16
7 Jul 161#10
Electronics can run pretty hot. It doesn't matter unless it's too hot. I don't recommend touching your i7 either. They're supposed to work that hot. Google were at one point looking at chips which can run even hotter as it's cheaper to not have to cool them as much.
Picard123 to alex16
8 Jul 16#11
LOL. Are you really trying to compare a 4.5W flash drive to a ~95W i7 CPU and saying that if the heat output from both is the same or similar, that it's fine? :laughing:
You really are clueless.
rsboden
8 Jul 161#12
I've had a 32GB version for over a year now, never had any problems, it's been faultless, never even been warm. Hence why I've just bought another one
Flamefast to rsboden
10 Jul 16#17
Same here, I've had mine since September 2014 permanently plugged into my ASUS netbook and works fine. I literally take my netbook everywhere with me, the Sandisk is so compact you don't notice it's there.
Hootwo
9 Jul 16#14
How charming of you. You're a gem. I think he was talking about temperature rather than heat output ...
alex16
9 Jul 16#15
I'm sorry if you were confused by the long words and hard to understand comparison between two different electrical devices. I'll try again. Computer run hot. Computer like hot. Human not like hot. Hot hurt human. Ow! But computer not human. Not cpu. Not storage device. Device like hot, but not too hot.
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32GB - £7.95
64GB - £12.95
128GB - £24.95
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I bought one from Amazon and whilst it got hot, it was okay.
I bought another one from Flubit (who sourced it from a 3rd party seller, not Amazon) and the heat it gives off when plugged into the side of the laptop is just ridiculous. Sufficiently worrying for me not to leave it plugged in as I could feel a noticeable amount of heat coming from that side of the laptop (which was otherwise much cooler).
Still works fine though, I'm sure it'll burn out in the future :smiley:
You really are clueless.
http://www.base.com/fsearch.htm?search=sandisk+ultra+fit