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mikeassk
27th of April 2009 (Mon), 01:06
Has anyone had trouble converting RAW files to DNG. I am using CS4(Bridge) and a Seagate 1TB external with a MBP. My old HD was fine, ( Exact same model) but this one is cooking my Mac, running at 190 degrees to convert about 4 gigs.
Any Ideas?
tim
27th of April 2009 (Mon), 01:22
If you're working it hard and it doesn't have a fan it'll get hot. I can't be bothered converting to American units so I can't really tell you if that's too hot or not. Probably is though. Point a fan at it or something, or get a better drive.

If I run a backup to my external SATA drive that has no fan it gets warm, but not hot.
mikeassk
27th of April 2009 (Mon), 01:38
It is about 88 centigrade.
I am going to have to get a Desktop.
My laptop is going to fry up doing this daily.
tim
27th of April 2009 (Mon), 01:45
My hard drives are 38 celcius, 60 degrees is as hot as they're meant to get. Do you have plenty of room around the external drive for cooling? Does it have a fan, and if so is it working?
mikeassk
27th of April 2009 (Mon), 02:01
Oh,
I was misleading,
Its the computer.
Moppie
27th of April 2009 (Mon), 02:04
The CPU is hitting 88 deg?

That is pretty hot, I would have thought it would have shut down by then.


But converting 4gb worth of photos will using CS4 will load up any system to its max levels.

If you do it on a regular basis then a quad core desktop would be a very good idea.
Lap tops are simply not designed for that level of work on a regular basis.
mikeassk
27th of April 2009 (Mon), 02:15
^
Yes. Your right.
This the first time it has ever happened.
It does NOT do it if I am converting them to the computers HD,
just the external.
It will heat up,
but not 89 degrees C.
tim
27th of April 2009 (Mon), 04:29
Strange. I guess it's just working that little bit harder, and laptops are pretty compact. 88 degrees is pretty hot for a cpu though. Make sure the sides and bottom of the laptop aren't obstructed, make sure it's on a hard flat surface, but there's not much else you can do. If it's multi-core tell it to run using only one core to keep the temp down, and run it overnight - the air's cooler then too.

Modern computers will typically shut themselves down before they let you damage the CPU from heat.