Do you bother about your HDD temps?

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Untill only a few days ago ive never ever checked anything to do with HDD temps only worried about CPU and GPU however the other day i needed to add something to my file server so i took my hard drives out only to notice they were very hot :eek: so i put a fan on the front of my HDD's after doing some research it appears that HDD's actually need to be quite cool so i now seem to have my HDD's in my server running at 22c - 32c. they must have been atleast 40 - 50 before i put a fan on the front!

does anybody actually bother with there HDD temps?
 
My drives typically run around 40C. They all have 120mm fans sat in front of them (Coolermaster 4in3 jobbies) but don't have an issue with temps at all. The only drive I've ever had fail that I can vaguely attribute to temperature got to around 60C cos it was in a small case with very restricted airflow. I;d say the temps you're looking at are fine, although there have been people pointing out on these forums lately that drives running at slightly elevated temps tend to last longer.
 
i personally would like to see mine as low as possible as heat so hopefully my drive would last longer.

atm my Raptors are around 30C and my 500Gb Samsung is at 24C :)
 
Yes, I always make sure there is some direct airflow over the drives, I'm using a 8cm fan @ 7v and it reduced temps by 10 degrees compared to zero airflow.
 
I have a fan on the front of my case which blows air in past the 3 Seagate HDDs I've got. Can't say I get overly concerned about the temps of them - I know they're being kept cool so it's fine.
 
I have just had a drive go down due to high heat. Was in a external alli case and was red hot to touch. Noticed speed was getting slower and slower. Put my 12" oscalating fan on it and made a massive difference.

Went from 1.2mb per sec to 20mb per sec when fan on it for file transfers.

Anyway must have done damege before noticed as died today.
 
I am very concerned about temperatures having had a series of unfortunete events conspire such that I lost around 210GB of music, photos, installation files etc.

I have passive Zalman heatpipe coolers on my four drives, though due to me having two RAID arrays in my system - I have now no idea how to monitor their temperatures (two of them are raptors).*

*sighs*

*sorry to thread-jack - but if anybody could help me I'd be very grateful indeed.
 
Greenlizard0 said:
I am very concerned about temperatures having had a series of unfortunete events conspire such that I lost around 210GB of music, photos, installation files etc.

I have passive Zalman heatpipe coolers on my four drives, though due to me having two RAID arrays in my system - I have now no idea how to monitor their temperatures (two of them are raptors).*

*sighs*

*sorry to thread-jack - but if anybody could help me I'd be very grateful indeed.
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With the likes of onboard RAID controllers there is virually no way to measure the temps of the HDDs while they are set up in that array (from within Windows), I also use a separate SATA RAID contoller, this does not allow me to see the HDD temps from within Windows either, but using the browser interface (of their utility) I get the temps ok.

As regards cooling....I think a very effective way to do this is by having fan(s) blowing cool air over them (I have 2 x 80mm chassis fans doing this)...my 2 x 500GB WD AAKSs (non RAID) report temps of between 33-35C, my 2 x 320 Seagate 7200.10s (RAID0) show temps of 35-36C, and my 2 x 74 Raptors do not give a temp as they are in RAID0 on an ICH7R cont., but when running in IDE mode have reported temps of around 35C.

If one of my Raptors (or any of the others) are about to stop working, there will (generally) be symptoms ie. unusual HDD noises, problems booting etc, which are going to be noticed before a high temp...at this point it is time to backup your data before it fails completely...so really it is the symptoms you will be presented with first (which should start alarm bells ringing) rather than a high temp...

If you have more than one HDD failure in a short time, I think you are just being unlucky. :)
 
I've never bothered particularly about my hard drive temperatures, when I used to run 3 Maxtors full time they were apparantly around 55C which is pretty much max recommended temperature but now with a Seagate and single Maxtor they are both around 40C. :)
 
Talrinys said:
Don't worry about it, at all, check the google report ;)
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If people would actually read the google report properly, they would see that google considers 45C and above as "hot" (which is rather *lower* that what is considered hot around here), and additioanlly that for older drives (2-3+ years IIRC), even just being beyond that (rather common in home/gaming rigs) temperature correlates with substantially higher drive mortality.

This idea that "Google says hdd temperature doesn't matter" is incorrect and potentially dangerous. It's an oversimplification/misrepresentation of what the article actually says. Caveat Emptor.
 
According to speedfan HD temp 500GB Samsung 7200rpm is 25 degrees. 17 degrees ambiant. Only has a 8cm fan @7v, and cramped area.
 
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