How hot should old 50-pin SCSI drives be?

[johnsonfromwisconsin]

I have an old Seagate barracuda full height drive that I just loaded system 7.5 on. It's really warm to the touch. My question is, how warm should these things get? Is it a sign of imminent failure?

 

[adespoton]

Mine ran hot and noisy for over a decade. Hot enough that you wouldn't want to touch it while running for an extended period. I ended up installing a fan in its case to try to cool it down a bit.

 

[s_pupp]

I have an old Seagate barracuda full height drive that I just loaded system 7.5 on. It's really warm to the touch. My question is, how warm should these things get? Is it a sign of imminent failure?

If you are referring to those full height full width 9.1GB 50 pin server drives, someone in the Dealchat forum around the turn of the century described them as “fire-breathing.”