does anyone..

[aznx]

does anyone wonder ever how high their hd temps are and if the hd ever overheats? how hot are your hds?

brand:
temp:
time:
cooling:

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brand: seagate barracuda iv 80 gig
temp: 45 degrees c
time: hour and a half
cooling: none

[HackofDestruct]

well my 40 gigger was like 120 and that is way to hot normal and max is like 110 F but then i got an hdd cooler and the thing dropped big time in temp like to 90 degrees F.my seagate 80gig runs really cold oh yeah both drives are 7200rpm

[zeradul]

Well, I once had a 7200 rpm WD without any cooling (3 years ago before I knew HD's could create heat) It was in my basement at the time, (68 degrees) and after a Windows install, it was borderline too hot to touch, I am going to estimate 130 F. Since then I have always had circulation passing through my hard drive areas.

Now with even just a minute amount of circulation, my HD stays around 80-82F in a 70F room.

[aznx]

hmm...maybe i should get a fan for it

[FLaCo]

Vantec makes some nice heatsinks real cheap to....comes with dual fans and get screwed onto the bottom of the HDD.

[ReSpAwN DeMoN]

How do you find out the temp of your HD I wanna find out the temp of my ol' so succesful deathstar.

[aznx]

well, my seagate has a tempature probe built in, dunno about the ibms, try a hd temp utility or sandra

[zeradul]

I use a digital doc probe to measure mine...

[sKuLLsHoT]

IBMs have built in probes, but u need the IBM dos utils to access the readings... AFAIK

[aznx]

IBMS...sadness, sandra can't detect the probes?

[sKuLLsHoT]

not that i have found, no windows utilities seem to be able to see the probes...

best i could come by was a util that monitored the HDD health using S.M.A.R.T. capabilities of the IBM drives, fat lot of good that was, coz i had that util runnin and the day b4 my 45Gb drive died, it said the HDD was 100% healthy!

[ReSpAwN DeMoN]

I'm gonna search for the util I guess on the IBM website? And that does it I've heard far to many things negative about IBM drives. I guess its the price to pay for the faster drive? Anyway my next drive I'm gonna get a WD special addition. Then again that's if there is a next drive I'm still using just over half of mine.

[Beefy]

lately, my case has been heating up to 47C (CPU is hitting mid 50's...) and my HDD it very hot to the touch.. Probably not the best thing. It's a serious airflow problem in my case when the sides are on. I've got a panel open at the front, but that doesn't seem to help much.. What I'd give for a new case.. :) Guess I'll have to take the sides off again.

But yeah, my HDD's get very very hot, and still seem to work ok.

[sKuLLsHoT]

Beefy wants my DTK don't u...

I never had airflow issues with it!

[Beefy]

your what?