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i have 4HDD's ontop of eachother in a rack with a 120mm fan blowing onto them. what should the temps be? 1 is used for windows and the others for downloading and storage?
HDD Temps?
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there are gaps between all the drives and there between 35 - 40'c normally bit hotter when converting movies and copying files.
The temperature depends on ther drive, my smallest dirive 80GB idles at 20C (i've seen it go down to 17C) and my largest 300GB idles at 27C. I have 3 HDDs in a rack with a 120mm fan in front of it.
What you can do is install Speedfan and go to the HDD SMART check. It lets you compare your temperature with the average of other people who use the same HDD.
What you can do is install Speedfan and go to the HDD SMART check. It lets you compare your temperature with the average of other people who use the same HDD.
i have 3 Maxtors and 1 Seagate
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Well I got 2 Seagates with 2 80mm fans blowing on em and they peak at 30 degrees under full load.
One HUGE thing I found to cool down HDD's is one of those HDD coolers (ones that fix to the bottom of the HDD). I've got one for other pc.
Normal temps before cooler - 45-50
With cooler 30-35
Was damn pleased
Another side effect of them is that they'll cool down 2 drives at once
One HUGE thing I found to cool down HDD's is one of those HDD coolers (ones that fix to the bottom of the HDD). I've got one for other pc.
Normal temps before cooler - 45-50
With cooler 30-35
Was damn pleased
Another side effect of them is that they'll cool down 2 drives at once
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OT a bit, but your SCSI drives; how big are they and how much faster are they than a single drive in general use?cavemanoc said: