The insane temperatures made me come to this disassembly guide. This case is designed with zero airflow in mind. The honeycomb grid is fully blocked with the exception a partial section at the bottom of the drive. Now disassembled and inspecting the middle piece I really can’t get my head around the motivations of this faulty design. At least some ventilation at the top would have had allowed for air convection to take care of it.

I have been monitoring the temps using HWmonitor. I live in Sweden and in summer we rarely go over 25 C. This drive was reaching 52 C when backing up files to it. My internal drives inside my case which are very restricted for air even get a not so worrisome 40s C.

I got suspicious when I saw many reviews about this unit (I got a 8TB) dying out after a few months.

Thanks to the guide I managed to take it a part with minimal damage (some clips are bent). I used a butter knife and it tok e around 5-10min in the kitchen.

Thanks for sharing!