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HD Overheating

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Koreanzulu

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What are the symptoms and causes of hd overheating? I originally had a WD80gb and it was doing fine for abotu the first 10 months, until playing wow and i would hear a clicking like the hd was struggling or something and WoW would goto 2-3 fps and terribly jittery. I thought the hd went bad so i bought a raptor and it solved the problem... for abotu two months. When i went to the task manager and looked under performance it idled around 90-100% and most of the bar was red when i turned on 'show kernel times'

Just recently it has been doign the same thign with my raptor and my other hd unplugged. So i figured it couldnt' just be the hd, and it may be overheating. i just recently put in an 80mm fan and am testing to see if it occurs again. does this sound liek a symptom of hd overheating?
 
Your case must have horrible circulation for HDDs to overheat, if that's what happened in both cases. Even without any direct cooling such as a 80mm in front of a drive cage, a HDD shouldn't head towards temp failure.
 
Buy a new power supply. Check the stickies in the PSU forum. Report back. A $40 Fortron unit will be way better than the Rosewill. I had symptoms like this before I replaced mine.

 
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