At what temp do you guys start worrying about your hard drives?
As far as I know, above 50C will damage your HDDs if they are subjected to it for a longer period.
My three run at 27C 35C and 30C as of right this minute. Usually they stay around 30-35. Anything above that and I get worried.
From Wikipedia:
"A common misconception is that a colder hard drive will last longer than a hotter hard drive. The Google study seems to imply the reverse—"lower temperatures are associated with higher failure rates". Hard drives with S.M.A.R.T.-reported average temperatures below 27*°C (80.6*°F) had higher failure rates than hard drives with the highest reported average temperature of 50*°C (122*°F), failure rates at least twice as high as the optimum S.M.A.R.T.-reported temperature range of 36*°C (96.8*°F) to 47*°C (116.6*°F).[87]"
[QUOTE=the_grul;30256175]From Wikipedia:
"A common misconception is that a colder hard drive will last longer than a hotter hard drive. The Google study seems to imply the reverse—"lower temperatures are associated with higher failure rates". Hard drives with S.M.A.R.T.-reported average temperatures below 27*°C (80.6*°F) had higher failure rates than hard drives with the highest reported average temperature of 50*°C (122*°F), failure rates at least twice as high as the optimum S.M.A.R.T.-reported temperature range of 36*°C (96.8*°F) to 47*°C (116.6*°F).[87]"[/QUOTE]
what
that doesn't even make sense
brb wrapping my hard drive in foam
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Holy crap, is that a sensor error or is it really that hot!?
Has to be an error... If it was really 262F, it would be a smoldering pile of melted plastic....
SSD don't show proper SMART readings, I believe.
[editline]5th June 2011[/editline]
else it's probably a pile of melted plastic by now
[QUOTE=Shadaez;30256666]SSD don't show proper SMART readings, I believe.
[editline]5th June 2011[/editline]
else it's probably a pile of melted plastic by now[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=SuperDuperScoot;30256654]Holy crap, is that a sensor error or is it really that hot!?
Has to be an error... If it was really 262F, it would be a smoldering pile of melted plastic....[/QUOTE]
Correct! It's cold to the touch. It's just a sensor error. Kinda funny.
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We could cook shit on that.
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I wonder why is it that my Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB 32MB runs that much hotter than my Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB 32MB as they're mounted in same HDD bay in my Antec P180B with 10cm gap in between them and there's even fan really close.
To the OP, well what i've heard and read is that HDD manufacturers recommend to keep the HDDs cooler than 50C in the HDD manual operating temperature range.
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My Vertex 2 reports 0°C. :v:
Some SSDs don't have SMART readings that are compatible with the standard hard disk ones.
My Crucial C300 shows the correct reading of 24C however.
How is that correct? SSD's don't actually produce any heat because there's no moving parts.
[QUOTE=jaybuz;30257527]How is that correct? SSD's don't actually produce any heat because there's no moving parts.[/QUOTE]
Ambient temperature, same as the two hard disks next to it
[QUOTE=jaybuz;30257527]How is that correct? SSD's don't actually produce any heat because there's no moving parts.[/QUOTE]
SSDs do produce heat as there is no superconductors that have 0Ohm resistance under normal circumstances.
As Watts = Voltage * Amperage and as in SSDs there is no parts that require mechanical power to move them and possibly no LEDs/Lights which use power to produce light so all power used by SSD gets turned into heat, but as SSDs don't use alot of power the heat produced by them stays minimal.
Well, it makes sense that drives would fail if they were ran cold. Mechanical hard drives since the days of yore have been designed to operate in a specific temperature range due to thermal expansion of the hard drive platters. The controller has to compensate for sectors moving around due to heat.
Didn't Google also conduct a test that stated that keeping your disks at around 50 Celsius is best for them??
My HDDs are always under 40c, if I see them over 50c, I check if somethings fucked up.
[QUOTE=jaybuz;30257191]My Vertex 2 reports 0°C. :v:[/QUOTE]
So did my Vertex 2, before it died.
My laptop hard drive has been past 50c a number of times (I leave it running on my bed and the sheets block the fan vent) and it has had no problems after 3 years of use.
Maybe laptop HDDs are designed to run a little hotter since laptops have crappy cooling, yet S.M.A.R.T on Speccy still says less than 50c is good, so I'm not sure.
blah my HDD goes up to 65°C at load, 55°C in idle still running good after 5-6 years, I mounted a fan on it and the temperatures fell down for 2-3°C
[QUOTE=QuAtT;30279465]blah my HDD goes up to 65°C at load, 55°C in idle still running good after 5-6 years, I mounted a fan on it and the temperatures fell down for 2-3°C[/QUOTE]
Get a new hard disk - it won't last at those temperatures.
What disk/manufacturer?
WD2000JS and it has lasted with those temps for like 5 fucking years it wont die anytime soon
[QUOTE=QuAtT;30282954]WD2000JS and it has lasted with those temps for like 5 fucking years it wont die anytime soon[/QUOTE]
Didn't realise it was an old drive, fair enough then, it'll probably last another 5.
probably more, Ive got some old dragon or something that fits in the 5.25" bay still works like a charm and it has an amazing 1,25 Gb of total space
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