harddrive cooling and temps

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xnikx

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i have a thermal take case
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811133154

and i currently have my hd in the drive bay next to the psu

i check my temps on speedfan, idk if these r the temps or not but i see HD0 and i figure thats my harddrive
i have a seagate 250gb 7000rpm
the idel temp is at 33*C
it doesnt move, is this my temp and if so is it good or should i move it in the other drive bay with the fan blowing in? or should i switch the 80mm mm by the psu hd bay so its blowing onto the hd?
 
does harddrives temp change under loads? and will the temps rise if i have more stuff on the HD? Say i have only 90gbs left will my temps be higher?
 
xnikx said:
does harddrives temp change under loads? and will the temps rise if i have more stuff on the HD? Say i have only 90gbs left will my temps be higher?
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Yes it should. A hard drive is a mechanical device and will produce more heat as it is being used (head actuator movement). Under "load" to me would be a large (several gigs) file (or many files) being copied to or moved from the drive, making the actuator arm move the heads back and forth. Unless you have the power saving features enabled for your Hard drive, the motor is constantly spinning the platters, producing some sort of heat, but when you add a lot of activity (head movement), it should produce more heat. I can see my HD temps raise by 1-2c while defragging. As far as capacity affecting temps... I doubt it.

33c isn't bad, but if you could improve airflow in your case, you may be rewarded with lower temps. My 36GB Raptor runs at 28c and the 160GB drive usually runs at 31c. With a 10,000 rpm spindle speed, you'd think the Raptor would be hotter, but I have a 120mm fan blowing across it (and the other drive is located behind the Raptor)
 
i have no fan blowing on it i have a fan behind it blowing air out.
 
I wouldn't worry. My WD250KS runs in the low 40Cs, and my Maxtor200 runs mid/hi-30Cs. Maxtor has an 80mm fan in the vicinity, the WD is in a CoolDrive6, with the fan at ~60% fan speed.

-bZj
 
im not very worried, just wanted to know what temps were safe. i was worried early tho. i dont kno why but my temps were all ideling higher then they should.
cpu 48C, gfx 55C, HD 35C
so i shutdown and now temps r normal again.

are u sure temps rise while gaming? when i game i dont realy notice the temps going up

my temps r acting up again.
cpu 44C, gfx 55C, HD 36C. My temps slowly seem to be raisin.

my comp like kinda froze up, i could open anything except the windows that were already open.
so i rebooted.
i checked my cpu bios temps b4 i started cpu 36C
i get on and speeds fan says 48C, 49C, 50C. it slowly lowered to 43C.

If this has anything to do with it my comp has been on since about 2:45pm and its now 10:45pm, i only played about 1 hour of light gaming.

My cpu is now at 37C is this normal, any1 know whats going on?
 
Need more info, what MB ? what cpu ? what memory ? are you overclocking ?

take the side panel off, does it still lock up after a gaming session ?
 
680i, e6600, gskil ddr800 2gb(1gbx2), not ocing
the temps lower a little bit with the side panel off, never locks up after gaming. lock ups usually occur when im playing like party poker or soemthing like that.
 
sorry i asked this earlier but didnt really kno if the response was talking about this.
i have 250 gbs, say i only have 90 gbs left will that raise the temps?
 
No, the data on the disk has no effect on heat. Only accessing the data matters.

-bZj
 
ok good, and i dont notice any temp changes while gaming. the temps seem to get hotter doing minor things then they do when im gamgin.
 
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