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my maxtor 160gb drive easily hits 42 or 43 in the summer when the room gets quite hot. I live in Andalucía. So far so good, knock wood.
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HD temp
- Thread starter nd4spdbh2
- Start date
- Joined
- Oct 18, 2002
- Location
- Up in Good o' Minnesota
I have a Maxter 160G and a WD 120 Gb when running a load they are about 37C +- 5C...that is with out any sort of fans and they are right on top of eachother in the HDD Rack. Just yesterday i got a gen 120MM fan and it is about 10 cm away an blowing though the cut holes in the HDD rack. they now run at about 30C +- 3C. So adding just a simple fan worked wonders my whole case is doing much better.
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- Nov 18, 2005
Seagate 160GB does about 30-33C idle temp. Not sure what the full load temp would be, maybe a few degrees higher? Single drive with lots of space around it and a 120mm fan in front of it. I have an 8GB Maxtor sitting lose in the bottom of the computer (trying to get linux on it) and it's pretty damn hot (nothing is touching the case, aside from an insulating piece of wood under it). It has no temperature probe.
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- Oct 9, 2001
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- Dundalk, Ireland
Hmmm.
Up until recently, I had only 2 Maxtor 120GB drives in one cage with a 80mm fan in the front.
However, for the last few months i've had the 2 Maxtors plus a 200GB all in the same cage with no fan. This is because I had to remove fan and the cage below to make room for a water pump.
Now they can quite often be nearly too hot to touch underneath, so easily 50ºC+.
But seeing as i've now ducted my case out the window, case temps have dropped massively with the Winter air, so the hard drive temps will be way down.
Must measure them all the same...
Up until recently, I had only 2 Maxtor 120GB drives in one cage with a 80mm fan in the front.
However, for the last few months i've had the 2 Maxtors plus a 200GB all in the same cage with no fan. This is because I had to remove fan and the cage below to make room for a water pump.
Now they can quite often be nearly too hot to touch underneath, so easily 50ºC+.
But seeing as i've now ducted my case out the window, case temps have dropped massively with the Winter air, so the hard drive temps will be way down.
Must measure them all the same...
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- Jan 6, 2003
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- I can see walmart, 44906
as can be seen in my av, my laptop hard drive gets quite toasty at 53 C, its actually sitting at 54 right now but its caus the lappy is onmy lap. this thing in here tho... is pretty well insulated, which sucks. it has to go through a couple layers of sheet metal, nd then a few layers of plstic on one side, and 2 layers of metal and a mobo and RAM and another layer of metal till it gets outside air on the other side, so its warm. dont help that the ram makes its own heat to make the whole area a cluster of heat.
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- Oct 21, 2005
My hard drive usually runs near ambient temperatures. Right now it is at 24C, ambient maybe 23C.
-Gearshift3r
-Gearshift3r
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- Sep 10, 2003
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- You Should Make a Wish!
I have my 2 HD's sitting in the 5.25 bays of my Lian Li PC71 tower (Full tower), And my temps right now are 35-37C, and during the summer, are 43-47C.
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- Nov 10, 2005
- Location
- Oxford
i have a seatgate barracuda 80gb, runs sweet at 20-24 degree's, never above. i have actually moveed it to my top HD tray to resrtict the airflow a little as possible as i have a active cooler on it. courtesy of ebuyer again, about £1.19....
i'm using ITE smart guardian btw
i'm using ITE smart guardian btw
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