Hard drive temps?

nightmare99 · 7 Jul 2009 at 12:43

What would you say is an acceptable temp for a 7200 sata hard drive. Looking at the datasheet for the Seagate ES.2 the operating temp is between 5c and 55c. I ask as I have some running at between 59-61c, are they doomed

RavenLunatic · 10 Jul 2009 at 19:07

I would imagine the operating temp refers to the room temp rather than the temp of the drive itself. Unless you see smoke or flames I wouldn't worry about it.

JonJ678 · 11 Jul 2009 at 03:46

35 to 55 according to WD. This was for their scorpio drives, and it refers to the temperature reported in cpuid monitor and so forth.

Ive been told their mtbf halves with each 10 degree increase in temperatures. Crude to be sure, but suggests it does matter. 60 is probably fine. 65 not great. I've got a laptop on rma for running its drive at 72. Can you aim a fan at them?

Amraam · 11 Jul 2009 at 10:37

Sorry, undoubtedly a dumb question, but what do you monitor your HDD temps with?

I would use RivaTuner etc, but it won't detect any compatible drivers on this Win7 system

mithrandir · 11 Jul 2009 at 10:44

Personally I think anything over 50 degrees is not good for Hard drives.

Mine run around 28 (Sammy F1) and 35-38 (Hitachis)

mithrandir · 11 Jul 2009 at 10:47

Oh and to monitor temps use CPUID Hardware monitor

Sultan of Ping · 11 Jul 2009 at 17:18

My RAID card software has the ability to report and monitor the temperature of connected drives. FYI my Seagate 500GBs all run at around 32 degrees celsius. I would consider this acceptable, yours sound like they are a bit hot, maybe you should examine the airflow in your case?

explicit4u · 11 Jul 2009 at 18:36

You can use Speedfan to measure temps.

hawker1986 · 11 Jul 2009 at 18:41

There are some hard drive temp monitoring programs about, but speedfan will do the job, mine didnt go above 45oC in the mega heat of last week, and normally they dont go above 35

Hawker