1 TB Heat (?)

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I'm getting ready to put a small backup computer together and was wondering how hot these larger drives get. This will probably be a mid ATX case and have a smaller drive in it for an OS. Nothing fancy - C2D , onboard vid/sound , dvd burner.
 
Toss a small or low RPM fan in front or behind them to keep some air moving over them, they should be fine then.
 
Yea, when I ran a small server in the past, I always mounted a fan to move air over the drives as I tended to have stuff going 24/7. Prolly wasn't really needed, but it made me feel better. I used the fans with the little temp sensor so it would slow down if things were cool. :cool:

This last year I switched to a NAS, and just bought a new 5 bay NAS.

Don
 
Depends on which 1TB drive you use.

I have two Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TBs in my system, and they run extraordinarily cool w/o fans. In fact, both drives run just 1 or sometimes 2 degrees C above room temp.

Now, I had a Segate 750 GB Barracuda ES and it ran fairly hot, about 10 degrees C higher than the Samsungs (mounted in the same location).

I can upload screen shots when i get home (on the road right now)
 
liquidfluidity said:
Must be nice!!!
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Well, I could only afford to fill 3 of the 5 bays right now. I will have 2 TB available right now. I will prolly fill the last 2 slots with 1.5 drives. Then when I need the extra 2.5 TB, I will just have to replace the 3 original 1 TB drives. I can expand my NAS on the fly. It just takes a while.

It boggles my mind. I am just looking at my original 40 MB drive sitting on my shelf that I bought just 18 years ago.

Don
 
Well, lately I have taken to watching old tv series on my Zune when I travel. As long as I have the files on my Zune, I have to keep the originals online, or the Zune software assumes I no longer own the files and dutifully erases them from the player. :rolleyes:

Oh well, I didn't want to have to buy another for quite a while, so I went all out for the biggest NAS I could afford.

Don
 
That chart seems to be reasonable considering I have both a 1TB hitachi and a 4x 750 samsungs in the same case. The hitachi is 10deg C higher.

However, it has been proven that increased HEAT degrades drives VERY little as long as you are within the spec range. Both Intel and MS testing show this surprisingly as of late. I am unsure of what to make of heat other than to keep the temps in a decent range. In terms of power...I just aim for the lowest.
 
The 750 GB Samsung Spinpoint F1 drive in my main system runs noticeably cooler than the 80 GB Hitachi and 250 (older model) Samsung Spinpoint HDDs. I definitely wouldn't worry about temperatures with the 1 TB version of the F1 models :)
 
Heres the temps in my system, in a hot room (Temp Sensor 3 is room temp. Although, it has ALWAYS read a bit high, there is no way my room is 82 degress, it's about 75.)



You can see I have 2 x 1TB Spinpoint F1's. They run quite cool. Both drives in that screen shot are at idle. The one drive that is running hotter, the one at 30 degress, is the one mounted closer to my 2 Drive Seagate Raid Setup. (You cant monitor temps of a Raid 0 setup, that's why the temps of those two drives dont show up). Back when I had a Segate 750TB Barracuda ES, it always ran 10 degress C hotter than the Spinpoint F1.

But like a poster above mentioned, heat really does not hurt hard drives.

PS. The system is under full load in that pic (though the 2 X Spinpoints are at idle) I'm doing heavy video rendering, running 4 instances of Sony Vegas Pro encoding 4 separate HD videos. I'm trying to see how hot I can get the QX9770! It would also be interesting to see the temps of the 2 x Seagates in Raid 0 that are being worked HARD right now, too bad you can't with a Raid setup.
 
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