Deskstar T7K500 Overheating?

odh

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Hi,

I recently purchased a new Hitachi Deskstar 500GB, installed XP ok and got everything running before experiencing problems with the drive.

After running for a length of time (around an hour), the drive starts clicking and chunking and the system crashes. On a re-boot the drive is not detected (only my other spare Sata is detected) and it either takes a long period of time (more than a day) and/or switching Sata cables with my other drive to detect and use the drive (before it crashes again).

I ran HDTune and it survived a benchmark. I monitored it while I ran a full error check and noted the temperature rising from 30 up to 40 before returning to find the BSOD.

It looks as if this is a simple case of faulty drive overheating but wanted to ask around to see if this checks out. Any help anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

odh
 
What are you using to measure the drive temperature? If it only gets to 40C that's well within the normal operating range for the drive so there's something not right somewhere.

Have you run the Hitachi Drive Fitness Test on it?
 
What programs can u use to monitor hdd temps? whats a safe temp for them?

Starting to worry about this seeing as you can now get hdd waterblocks
 
Speedfan is the usual monitoring solution.

Most HDDs are spec'ed up to 55C although Seagate's newer drives will run up to 60C. To generate that sort of temperature takes some doing in a PC case - my media PC runs with virtually no active cooling and the disk still stays in the 40s.

Waterblocks are only available because folk will buy them, not because they're needed.
 
On main Console same as the CPU and Mobo (should be in Notification Area if you hover over CPU temp you see other Temps), and you can do a Smart Status Scan if non Raid.
 
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