Hard Drive Temps?

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Light1984

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This is my first time venturing into this subforum. I recently installed Everest because I want to manage some temps while overclocking and I thought it was a nice feature that they include the hard drive temps. Right now, while surfing and some mild downloads I am getting 44C on my 80 Gb Raptor, and 43C on my 250 Gb WD. These are not incredibly high, but are there "standards" for hard drives like there are for other components, for example, a processor shouldn't really go much above 50C generally speaking, a GPU shouldn't go much over 70C, etc? Just wondering what the consensus is on normal ranges for HDD temps.

Thanks
 
Your temps are perfectly fine for HDDs. Temp has been shown to be a very minute issue for HDD reliability. Well, that is not 100% true, but I'd try to keep them under 50 at the highest, and under 45 is good in my book, under 40 is great.

Why it is and is not true, is that as temp rises, the life can decrease BUT they are rated for such a long lifespan that your HDD would be far, far, far obsolete by the time even a temperature induced failure would occur.

I remember an article based off of a survey of Google's HDDs that showed that as long as you don't expose your HDD to extreme temperatures, keeping them cooler has almost no effect on the life expectancy of the drive.

Of course, if you are concerned make sure you optimize airflow in your case such that air is drawn over the drives and/or consider the addition of another fan.
 
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