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HDD Temp Increase

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This is a serious question, I have a HAF 922 case with a XFX FURY X card. I have one 200mm fan on front of case as intake and one 200mm fan on top and one Noctua 140mm fan on bottom of case for intake. I have them all set to lowest speed possible using case fan controller and I even have a low voltage adapter installed on the top fan to further decrease speed.

My two HDD temps as of right now are (according to speedfan):

18 and 19 degrees Celsius.

Everything that I've read states that temps UNDER 25 is what kills harddrives. My GPU temp is 20 degrees Celsius and gets up to anywhere between 33 and 50 degrees Celsius depending on the game.

I keep my office at 20 degrees Celsius.

1) Will these low temps kill my HDDs?

2) What can I do to increase the HDD temps without increasing overall temps in my case?

I have the HDDS mounted in the HDD cage using pipe foam (the kind you wrap pipes with). I cut out 4 small pieces the size of a pinkie finger and placed the HDD on top, then I placed 4 more pieces on top of that HDD on each corner and placed the other HDD on top of that. Before these HDDs were very loud but now they are totally silent.
 
What kills hard drives are big temperature swings - like going from ambient to +70C because of inadequate cooling and power cycling. They will run all day long happy as clams at 18-19C.
 
your office is cooler than 18* or the HD temps are incorrect as they can't be cooler than the ambient.
 
Thermocouples aren't known for their high accuracy, it's common to have one be off by a few degrees here or there. They do have excellent consistency though, which makes that easy to compensate for with just a basic offset.

That being said - Zepher brings up a good point - it could very well be that SpeedFan is reporting the wrong temperature, or more likely, it's the real temperature of something, just not necessarily your HDDs. What does SMART say (a utility like CrystalDiskInfo can read it directly from the drive)?
 
I don't think those temps are accurate. Use an app like CrystalDiskInfo or Aida64 to get accurate temp readings.
 
Hulk said:
This is a serious question, I have a HAF 922 case with a XFX FURY X card. I have one 200mm fan on front of case as intake and one 200mm fan on top and one Noctua 140mm fan on bottom of case for intake. I have them all set to lowest speed possible using case fan controller and I even have a low voltage adapter installed on the top fan to further decrease speed.

My two HDD temps as of right now are (according to speedfan):

18 and 19 degrees Celsius.

Everything that I've read states that temps UNDER 25 is what kills harddrives. My GPU temp is 20 degrees Celsius and gets up to anywhere between 33 and 50 degrees Celsius depending on the game.

I keep my office at 20 degrees Celsius.

1) Will these low temps kill my HDDs?

2) What can I do to increase the HDD temps without increasing overall temps in my case?

I have the HDDS mounted in the HDD cage using pipe foam (the kind you wrap pipes with). I cut out 4 small pieces the size of a pinkie finger and placed the HDD on top, then I placed 4 more pieces on top of that HDD on each corner and placed the other HDD on top of that. Before these HDDs were very loud but now they are totally silent.
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If you want to raise your temps, you'd simply use double sided tape and place a thin section of insulation foam. Done.

Now, they can run at that temperature no problems. As long as it's consistent and the spindle does not stop and start constantly due to "energy efficiency" features.
Most of my drives run chilled to like 19 as a side effect of air conditioning in the server closet. They usually only die once you stop them after a few years of running non-stop. It's the cycling.
 
Looks like your drives are powered down due to power saving.
I stopped using power saving on my hard drives years ago to help combat quite a few drive deaths.
I only buy NAS drives now but the other none NAS drives are still trucking along nicely at 41K, 48K and 62K hrs.
 
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