Hard Drive Temperatures

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  1. Cheap Mod Wannabe

    Cheap Mod Wannabe What's a Dremel?

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    After copying 20Gigs of data onto ATA Maxtor Hard Drive it temperature reached 47C!!! It started making unusual (F1 racing like) sounds. :eeek:

    How dangerous is it?

    What is HDD safe/dangerous temperature?

    Oh very sorry please move it to hardware or colling section of the forum I was rushing and pressed the wrong button. Sorry
     
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  2. dubya01

    dubya01 What's a Dremel?

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    Usually below 60C is fine. I like to keep under 50C tho.
     
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    Cheap Mod Wannabe What's a Dremel?

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    Oh so it shouldn't get damaged... Phew

    My 2 HDD's are around 35C however I put this one in just to copy some data onto it and it was contained in a place with no air circulation thus its temperatures reached these high levels.
     
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  4. Highland3r

    Highland3r Minimodder

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    Sammy spinpoint sits ~ 32-33 idle, Maxtor DM+9 ~ 39-41 idle, both with no airflow.
    WD cavier 120JB in a silentdrive, god knows, load must be into the 50's/60's tbh. Front of the drive is very hot, not too hot to leave your finger on though.... Its been sat in there for 3 years no probs though.
    Dont worry if its just under load, you'd expect a temp bump when the drives accessing.
     
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  5. herbs

    herbs Nobody but us chickens

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    It depends on the manufacturers spec but as dubya01 said upto 60 is before it becomes critical on most new harddrives but some of the older ones it was 50 degrees. Ideally you want to aim for 30-40 degrees.
     
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  6. MrWillyWonka

    MrWillyWonka Chocolate computers galore!

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    My computer HDD's run at <25C load usually. My server used to run at 60C IDLE! But I changed the fans around and now its 35C idle and 45C load. As many has said under 50C is ok, but generally the higher the temperatures, the higher the chances of the HDD failing and/or having a shorter life.
     
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    Skylined Minimodder

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    Go to Maxtor's site and take a look at your model's datasheet. ;)
     
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    Cheap Mod Wannabe What's a Dremel?

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    Thanks everyone.... now that hard drive found new home together with amd 64 winchester, k8 neo platinum, 1gig of corsair xlm and geforce 6800... (not mine though =|
     
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  9. cire9753

    cire9753 What's a Dremel?

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    mines pretty lame lowest its ever got was 97 degrees with 2 60mm hdd fans on it and 2 80mm intake fans on it lol its around 102 now with the home made hdd cooler
     
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    led_zeppelinzoso What's a Dremel?

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    my western digital hdd on load is about 25-30, idle is like 20 or less, but I have a 90mm 250cfm fan I got at princess auto for 7 bucks :hip:
     
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