do i need new h/drives ? temps high

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last week i had major probs with my pc and put it down to my Maxtor h/drives getting too hot.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17672058
Average temps are around 42.c for my boot drive and 45.c for my 2nd hard drive and that's just surfing the web.

i have a 2X diamond maxtor 6Y120M0 SATA h/drives ( 3years old )
using Drive Health h/drive proggy says that my bootdrive is going to go bust within 2 months(*ultra crc check*is -2) then it says it will go bust in 2019
(*ultra crc check*is ok).
my self built pc is 3 years old, with a Thermaltake Laser case, 1 side off,

intel 2.8 cpu
asus p4p 800 mobo.
nvidia 6800 agp card.
2x maxtor Diamond Max Sata drives.
1 gig generic ram.

question is Drive health prog says it needs more time to evaluate my h/drives, but what's ocuk experts verdict, get new hard drive/s asap or wait for another week so Drive health can work out the data on my hard drives ?
 
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The temperatures aren't excessively high, anything under 50C is usually OK. I'd try Maxtor's own diagnostics program (link in the sticky) rather than a third party windows tool and see what that says.

In the meantime I'd be getting anything critical backed up.
 
just ran a check disk via tools and i got a warning about my boot drive..i't came up at 58c.

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both are now at 45c.

back-ups in process- thanks for the info.
 
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i have learned the hardway about backing up so good to see you are doing it!
 
The *maximum* operational temperature for most drives is 55C (60C for Seagate Barracuda 7200.10's). The *max* static/non-operational temp for most drives is 65C (70C for Seagate Barracuda 7200.10's). Not suprisingly any drive operated beyond or close to it's redline can be expected to have a shortened lifespan and reduced reliability. Moral of the story, a cool hdd is a happy hdd is a reliable hdd. :)
 
clapton is god said:
does slower h/drives ( rpm) mean cooler hard drives ?

It can do, most of the heat is generated by the air friction caused by the spinning platters. As a result of this the platters in Raptors and most SCSI disks are only about 2.5" across rather than the 3" or so diameter used in 7200rpm disks.

This friction cannot be eliminated because air is required in the casing to allow the disk heads to "fly" over the surface in the boundary layer air.
 
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