Optibay Hard Drive Suggestions (Avoiding Overheating)

[walk1010]

Hello,

I'm currently considering an optibay hard disk to supplement my ssd, and I was wondering if anybody had any recommendations that they had good experiences with? I'm especially concerned with overheating issues I've read about in this forum. I read that someone actually had their SATA cable melt because of the heat, and a few stories about the disk being ruined due to heat. Thanks.

Also, here are the posts about the overheating issues if anybody is interested:

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/12412844/

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/12315600/

 

[alust2013]

I have a Scorpio Black that idles around 30C, and only ever gets up to about 33-35C when under a fairly heavy load. Certainly not hot enough to melt a cable.