does HD temp raise case temp alot?

[hellwolf]

well i yust learned i could read my hd temp using smart :p
but my eyes popped out my skull when i saw 43C on my 40gb hd.... does this affect case/cpu temp? (meaning adding a hd cooler wil get them lower?)

my ibm is at 32C

room temp is 22C

[Arkaine23]

Cooling the hard drive will not help your case temp unless by cooling it you are also venting the hot air out of the case. If you cool it with heatsinks or by blowing cool air onto it, the heat it gives off is still in your case. Any method of keeping it cool will probably prolong its lifespan however.

[hellwolf]

looking in your sig you have same HD as me... you coll it? and making it lifespan longer how long are we talking about? i mean i got no clue as to how long a HD lives... never had one brake down before (well one but that sucka was 10years old)

[dansonang]

hdd don't increase case temp. but cooling the hdd do increase its lifespan

[wymjym]

anything that gives off heat within the case, is air cooled, would increase the case temp
wj

[Arkaine23]

I cool my Maxtor and my Western Digital drives. My lower front fan is set to exhaust, and the Maxtor is next to it.

The lifespan of a HDD is a mysterious and capricious thing. Some go years, others only months.

[Nico3k]

YES! i have to say HDDs DO raise the sys temp and cpu temp. im talking about if you have 15,000rpm scsi hdds like me. when i unplug my scsis, my case temp drops 6 degrees c, and my cpu 2 degrees. if you have scsis and a watercooling system, i would really consider HDD waterblocks. when i further unplug my 80 gig ide ata133 7200rpm, it doesnt have a very big impact (only about 2 case temp and .5 cpu). but thats still something....
btw: the scsi is an IBM

find a place where you can return stuff, and get a hdd block and see if it fixes your temp.





:D

[hellwolf]

lol place where i can return stuff? dont think that exists in belgium :p

but a scsi is a lot hotter then a ide hd i geus?... and mine are yust some ide HD's with those tempratures

[dansonang]

you are right scsi is DEFINITELy hotter than the ide hd and it DEFINITELY needs cooling as it is hotstuff. The spinning part of the scsi at 15000rpm produce hell a lot of heat. Get yr self a harddrive cooler. Tt hardcano series is a good buy

[Nico3k]

i am getting a cooler for the scsi, but i dont want air cool. :cool:
looking for good hdd waterblock that 1/2 ID......

hellwolf- your fine... dont worry about it

[kev82]

Everything that gives off heat in the computer case raises the temp, but ide hard drives do not give enough heat to make it worth cooling (2-4°c *max*)

[parkan]

Even my 7200 RPM scsi drive gets very hot (and I have good airflow), but I cool it the ghetto way ;) I have a bunch (12 or so) of old heatsinks lying next to my case, and my hard drives are completely exposed. I put on heatsink on the paper label on the hdd and wait until it gets hot. After about 15 minutes, I replace it with a cold one. You can't get much more ghetto than that :D :p

[CrystalMethod]

Originally posted by kev82
Everything that gives off heat in the computer case raises the temp, but ide hard drives do not give enough heat to make it worth cooling (2-4°c *max*)

Not entirely true. It depends on how hot the HDD gets itself, where in the case the HDD is placed, and how good the airflow through yout case is. While a lot of people don't really have a choice where they can put their HDD's. Having it close or behind an intake will only heat up the incomming air. If your air flow doesn't exaust properly, you may see your temperature inside your case rise gradually. Sometimes more than 1-2°C degrees. I've see a regular HDD warm up the air inside a case 9°C inside of 4 hours because of poor airflow. Bottom line is, just make sure you have good airflow, tidy cabling, and you're exausting the air you're pulling in.

[dansonang]

unless that WHOLE harddrive is above 50 DEGREES CELSIUS then i would believe yr case temp would go up . by that time yr harddrive would have been cooked.

we are more concerned above cpu overheating rather than harddrive

[parkan]

Any component dissipating heat into the air, from a capacitor to the hard drive(s), will raise the case temps and therefore the CPU temp as well. How significant is that temperature increase is another question.

[dansonang]

comparing the size of the hard drive to the size of a cpu, the harddrive has a larger medium to conduct thermal energy. the harddrive will only dissipate that much heat to warm up the case by a significant temperature, when it gets REAL HOT.

[hellrazrblade]

i just got the mbm5 update w/ hdd temp ability. my maxtor reaches 100F w/ 39cfm of cool air rushing right past it (front intake fan). and yes, hdd's put out a lot of heat. i mounted it outside the case and temps dropped 5F case.