Studio Edition II gets extremely hot

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I had my studio edition II with the two hdd á 1000GB in Raid 1 setting and it gets extreme hot ( 61°C ) when copying a high amount of data for and hour.

Now i have changed the two HDDs from two 1TB to two 2,5TB  WD25EZRX.

And again, while copying the data back on the raid 1 system it gets 61°C

I think that is normal ( even if WD says in the Datasheet max Temp. 60°C )

But can it be good that a hdd gets so hot ??

OK, that will not be often, only now when i copy the 750GB data back on that HDDs,.

But i think it is not healthy for the drives.

The case has no fan, and i think this is bad.

What is your opinion ??

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I don’t care who makes the disk and what the specifications say. From practical experience of 30+ years with disks, 61C is too hot for any kind of longevity. Get a fan and tape it to back or do something to get air circulating around it. Enclosures with no moving air are not good things.

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But why does WD the drives sell like this ?

I bought that drive April 2009, so the fitted 1TB WD10EAVS made it this time.

And they still work, i dismounted them only to change to a bigger size.

But normally i dont copy that amount of date, only now for changing the harddisks and copying the data back on the MyBook.

For normal i copy data less than 3 or 4 GB, and than the drive gets not as hot as it gets tonight when it has to copy 750GB what lasts nearly 5 hrs.

But you are right, a fan would be better.