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Home Server: Drives seem hot

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StarsFan4Life

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I just recently put together a file server for my home. It is going to be on all the time. Today, I decided to stop by Microcenter to get a couple of 80mm fans.

When I opened up my case (Generic mid atx) to install the fans, I put my fingers on the hard drives and they were warm to extra warm. Almost hot I guess. I put my fingers on the heatsink of the cpu and I could barely feel anything.

What gives? Do hard drives run rather warm or do I need better cooling?

Now, the hard drives (2 x 500gb WD SATA) are installed in the case half way between the top and the bottom of the case. I installed an 80mm fan at the bottom front of the case tonight, but it doesn't blow directly on the drives themselves.

Do I need to get a better case?
 
Probably not. Before I put any ventilation on my WD's, they ran 50'C regularly. Hot to the touch for the first few minutes after shutting off the computer.

With a bit of airflow, they'll go down to 40.
 
I wouldn't worry about it. They are designed to run warm. Yeah a fan may extend their lives a bit but we are talking 7.5 years instead of 7 on a drive that is obsolete in 3 :)
 
You can google up the official specs and compare it to a hardware monitor. As long as its within specification who cares about subjective "warmth"?
 
I remember reading somewhere that the optimum operation temperature of modern HDs is somewhere around 40-50C. Hard drives do run hot, but they're designed to handle the heat and they aren't in any real danger of failing prematurely.
 
Zero82z said:
I remember reading somewhere that the optimum operation temperature of modern HDs is somewhere around 40-50C. Hard drives do run hot, but they're designed to handle the heat and they aren't in any real danger of failing prematurely.
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Remember too Google did that HDD study that said heat really played like no difference in what drives failed and how they failed.
 
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