Bizarre HDD temp

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Limp Gawd
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Last night when i was going to originally post this, according to HDD Thermometer my 250gb hard drive (WD2500KS) hit a temperature of 56°C, which scared the crap out of me. What I don't understand is that its next two my 2 80gb hdds (WD800JD) which are between 29°C and 32°C.

Is it the size of the drive that is causing such dramatic difference (I'm guessing no)? I read somewhere that some of these drives have firmware issues so the temperature is incorrect but I'm not sure if this is the case.

Currently its idling at 46°C, the drive is rarely used, it has two partitions for storage but is currently almost entirely clean.

edit- The more reading I do on this it seems that these drives do in fact have some sort of sensor problem, so I'm guessing its fine, but again not entirely sure.
 
well yes, depending on the software u are using to determine the temps, and also with the firmware of your HDs, you might get inaccurate readings, if u want to be sure, try using an external thermal probe, put it on top of the HD and check for temps, then do the same in the others.

Where they all placed (the HDs) have also an impact on the temperature, e.g. if there is no air circulating around it.
 
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