Slim External DVD Burner Question: Did I hurt my burner???

Hi guys

So I was burning a couple of DVDs today with IMG Burn (great program btw) on my LG P300 with the Slim External DVD Drive and I left it alone on the last DVD I had to record.

Just popped the Blank DVD-R in clicked start and then left to go take a nap.

A little over 4 hours later I come back to find IMG Burn was having problems with the sector or something and had been waiting for me to either cancel or retry (this usually happens and all I have to do is push retry until it starts burning).

I click retry and carry on with the burn as usual (DVD was successfully completed and works) but I'm a bit worried about my Slim External DVD Burner.

The DVD burner was really warm due to it spinning and reading for the entire 4 hours (it doesn't usually get this warm). I'm just wondering how much harm could this have had on my DVD burner?

I went on to burn 3 more DVDs with no problem, did this just to test it out to see if there was any noticeable damage. But I'm still worried

Thanks guys for taking the time to answering my questions. Really appreciate the help.

Jimmy

 

Unless you have symptoms no reason to worry. Heat is the enemy of all electronics/IC's but I doubt this matters. Doubt it got hot enough and doubt spinning and a little heat matters. Many components when they get overheated shut down. Do not know about external drives but if not broken don't worry.

I mean no disk warp? No sweat?

 

Powerpack

Nope no disc warps or anything, just a very warm external drive.

Thanks for the info.
Guess I can stop sweating
hehe

Jimmy