Have a compaq evo laptop with a toshiba 30gb hard drive. The hard drive recently died and laptop warned me through smart failure. I managed to get an identical laptop that didnt power up so got an identical hard drive back in it. Just installed dtemp and the hard drive is at 60 degrees and all im doing is downloading / seeding and browsing web. I think its a 5400rpm one. 60 is way too hot for desktop drives but are laptop ones built to take more heat?
Laptop harddrive temps
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In my desktop my 7200rpm hitachi idles at 31 degrees and goes up to about 37 when doing a virus and spyware scan.
However drives will be hotter in your laptop, though 60 sounds a bit too hot
However drives will be hotter in your laptop, though 60 sounds a bit too hot
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I've just installed Speedfan and interestingly it reckons that my laptop drive runs way cooler than my desktop drives which are 3x 200gb 7200rpm Maxtors running at between 51C and 60C. The laptop drive is a Hitachi 40gb at 5400rpm if I remember rightly and supposedly is at 33C currently, I'm not sure how much weight I put on the readings though as my desktop drives don't feel all that hot.
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My Dell Inspiron 630m has a 40GB Samsung, 8MB Cache, 5400RPM HD.
Temperatures are normally around the 34-40oC mark depending on what I'm doing.
Looking on the Samsung site here, the maximum operating temperature of the drive is quoted at 55oC.
Temperatures are normally around the 34-40oC mark depending on what I'm doing.
Looking on the Samsung site here, the maximum operating temperature of the drive is quoted at 55oC.
my (failing) WD drive is sitting at 34C and i think it was at nearly 40ish yesterday when i was running WD's tools to find drive errors, bad sectors etc and um yeah it found plenty 
so thats this thing on the way out.
what am read me of the most about is, the event viewer is FILLED with drive errors, was windows ever going to tell me?? they date back to when i last installed XP like 6 months ago. then windows tells me the other day it cant write to the drive, great, pitty in the event viewer it says windows knew this would happen 6months ago
so thats this thing on the way out.what am read me of the most about is, the event viewer is FILLED with drive errors, was windows ever going to tell me?? they date back to when i last installed XP like 6 months ago. then windows tells me the other day it cant write to the drive, great, pitty in the event viewer it says windows knew this would happen 6months ago