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HDD temperatures

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Elledan

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In my main system I've got three HDDs:

- Quantum Fireball 20 GB -> no apparent temperature monitoring capability
- Maxtor 120 GB -> currently at 28C
- Samsung 120 GB (5400 rpm) -> currently at 16C

All temperatures measured using Speedfan and with an ambient temperature of around 15C. The HDDs are suspended in a self-invented contraption (basically an aluminium U-bracket attached to the HDD and mounted in 5.25" bays).

What I find interesting is how the 5400 rpm drive is close to the ambient temperature, whereas the 7200 rpm drive is nearly double that.

What temperatures do you see with your system(s)?
 
5400RPM are usually cooler than the 7200RPM ones, but I have not noticed as big of a difference as you have.

Ambient in my server closet is 21.5C, and the drives 7200 drives are around 28C, and the 5400 is only 26C. They are in the same closet and only about 16" away from each other though.

I use 5400 HDDs in my HTPC becuase of noise mainly.
 
With my 120gb WD SE drives and 250gb WD SE drives, I was seeing around 30-35, in the bottom rack on my lian-li, cooled with two 80mm fans. No idea on my 10K SCSI drive, but he's well cooled with fans, and since I don't run speedfan anymore (damn you Asus and you're lackluster monitor support!), I've no idea on my Maxline II plus, but it's not warm to the touch with the fans running on it

Hope that helps
 
Styk33 said:
5400RPM are usually cooler than the 7200RPM ones, but I have not noticed as big of a difference as you have.

Ambient in my server closet is 21.5C, and the drives 7200 drives are around 28C, and the 5400 is only 26C. They are in the same closet and only about 16" away from each other though.

I use 5400 HDDs in my HTPC becuase of noise mainly.
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Well, the 5400 rpm HDD is a Samsung one, which are supposed to run quite cool. The U-brackets attached to the sides of each HDD help to cool them as well.

And then there's the issue of the accuracy of temperature sensors, which is yet an entire other can of worms :p

I agree, though, that 5400 rpm drives are great if you care about noise and heat. They're the perfect storage drives, especially for large (video) files.

BTW, 30-35C with active cooling sounds quite high. Then again, I've never heard someone recommend WD HDDs because they run so cool :)
 
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