Question 5 hours of archiving - is it normal?

[monere]

Hi,

I was transferring the contents of my old HDD to the new HDD because I've just built a new PC a week ago and I needed to transfer everything onto my new PC, and during this process I also archived (compressed) 600 GB worth of files (about 550k of them) and halfway through the archiving (in 7z format by the way), my computer crashed.

That's about 5 and half hours of continuous archiving during which time the CPU's temperature almost never got below 68 degrees, but it mostly stood at 72-76 degrees Celsius (which kinda worried me).

My CPU is Ryzen 5 5600 and its using the stock cooler (if this matters)... but anyway, my questions are these:

1) is it normal for a CPU to run at 70-ish degrees Celsius for 5 hours straight, or will this damage the CPU soon?
2) is it normal for 600 GB worth of files to take 10 hours to compress in 7z format, or is there something wrong with my OS / system?

Please let me know because these numbers worry me, and should this be dangerous to my system I will consider breaking this much data down into smaller chunks in the future should this be needed.

Thanks in advance for any insight you will provide

 

[USAFRet]

1) is it normal for a CPU to run at 70-ish degrees Celsius for 5 hours straight, or will this damage the CPU soon?

That is fine

2) is it normal for 600 GB worth of files to take 10 hours to compress in 7z format, or is there something wrong with my OS / system?

Depending on the composition of the data, that is also fine.
550,000 files? I see no issue with that timespan.
How much RAM is in this system?

 

[monere]

That is fine

Depending on the composition of the data, that is also fine.
550,000 files? I see no issue with that timespan.
How much RAM is in this system?

Whew! Thanks for the calming

It's 32 GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4

And the files are mostly graphics and marketing materials, including many videos on various topics

 

[USAFRet]

Whew! Thanks for the calming

It's 32 GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4

And the files are mostly graphics and marketing materials, including many videos on various topics

Some things don't compress well. Videos, in particular.

Why the 7zip, instead of just copying the data from A to B?

 

[monere]

Some things don't compress well. Videos, in particular.

Why the 7zip, instead of just copying the data from A to B?

Yeah, I knew about videos, but I didn't have time to go through the 1000s of folders to extract the videos... and it didn't make sense to extract them anyway since they're part of the various marketing and salesletter packages...

I compressed them because I won't be needing them anymore (at least for the next 2-3 years at minimum), and I wanted to organize my stuff anyway as it was a complete mess....

Anyway, if you say that this is normal that's all I needed to know, the problem is solved

Cheers!