Importance of hard drive cooling?

Muel

Muel

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Hey, I have a Samsung F1 and a Samsung F3, one is the 1TB and one is 320gb, no idea which is which though. :P

I'm just wondering do these really need cooling, or can they be mounted in the optical bays instead?

Cheers!
 
if hard drives needed cooling from then they would come with heat sinks, i don't think unless very hot effects hdd's as they have pressure equalising hole to make sure pressures don't rise and fall in the case

ive never seen the point and tbh imo, its just showing off!!!
 
Sounds about right. I've never cooled them before, they've always just been crammed down in some dusty corner of my case and never had a problem.

Think it's time to just go for it and then bench them to see what kinda temps I get.

Just out of interest, anyone know what sorta temps I should be aiming for with these drives?
 
I had a C:\ drive Raptor housed in a cosy silent drive enclosure. It thrashed away for several years and was non the worse for wear when it was finally replaced.

Don't listen to the scare stories. My F3 is quiet happy living in an optical drive enclosure and hasn't spontaneously combusted or anything.
iamtheoneneo said:
no.
although some cheese face will probs say yes just bc they can.
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Cheese face! I like that. :D
 
Muel said:
Sounds about right. I've never cooled them before, they've always just been crammed down in some dusty corner of my case and never had a problem.

Think it's time to just go for it and then bench them to see what kinda temps I get.

Just out of interest, anyone know what sorta temps I should be aiming for with these drives?
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I get 24C for my F3 and 21C for my F1. F3 is the OS disk and F1 is storage. These are cooled though (Antec 1200)
 
I aim for about 40C, in the google study that was the optimum temp.

the max my samsungs run is in the low 40s and thats with several close together with no airflow, my hitachis will run at 50ish in those conditions so i have a fan on those i think anywhere up to 50 is fine
 
ive got 1x 1tb, 1x500, 1x320, and my ssd all cram together in my case, all bar the ssd show temps of around 27/29c the ssd doesnt show a temp!!
 
MY samsung F1 ranges from 15c to 25c depending on ambient, as i have my 2 rad fans blowing directly onto it, not becuase it needs the cooling, just becuase i placed it there outa the way. That and my drive bays are taken up by a res and radiator lol.

But as most say it really is'nt to much of an issue, alsong as you keep them under manufacturers max running temps then its fine.
 
Few years ago I tried to transfer from 1 drive to another, full drive copy and the hard drive got so hot it locked the system, so ever since i make sure to keep my drives cooled.

think it was a 160gb seagate or samsung
 
I've kinda answered my own question, gone ahead and suspended the drives in the empty optical bays with no cooling, max temp I can get to is 32C under real world tests.

I moved 35gb of stuff between them, and did a defrag. I'm going to try a proper benchmark type test now though, any suggestions?
 
I have an old 45Gb deathstar ibm drive still working perfectly, and I'm convinced that's only because I've had a cooler on it 24/7 since it was first installed :D newer drives don't seem to get anywhere near as hot though so I don't usually bother anymore.
 
Probably depends on the hard drives. The simple fact is that Samsung say the operating temperatures of these drives is 0-60C. Mine refuse to go past 35C, so there's a fair bit of head way for when it gets all hot and summery!
 
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