Seagate 7200.10 - red hot!

Johnny Girth · 13 Feb 2007 at 09:26

Got 2 x 7200.10 250gb drivers in raid 0 and they are extremely hot to the touch all the time.

Is this normal? Motherboard is Asus P5N-E SLI. I'm sure my old HDs didn't run this hot!

rpstewart · 13 Feb 2007 at 09:37

The 7200.10s do run hotter than other drives, the normal operating temp range in their spec goes to 60C, most other drives don't go beyond 55C.

If you can touch them they're not getting that hot, close to 60C will give you a nasty blister.

ByteJuggler · 13 Feb 2007 at 10:09

I'd like to add that they if given usual/proper airflow they're not substantially hotter than most other drives. Mine runs around 34C most of the time. Stating the obvious: keeping drives cool are beneficial to their useful life.

Edit: corrected my grammar...

arfur · 14 Feb 2007 at 22:16

yep mine run really hot as well, I got a 120mm blowing over mine now

Stelly · 14 Feb 2007 at 23:57

arfur said:
yep mine run really hot as well, I got a 120mm blowing over mine now

ame here but with about 8 Hdds in the same case I think its bound to get hot

Stelly

Gas Panic! · 15 Feb 2007 at 00:23

I have three harddrives in the front of my case = 2 x 7200.10's and a Samsung SpinPoint 160Gb. All are at around 30/31C with a 120mm intake fan blowing over them.