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HOT hard disk

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matthew

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I recently bought a 160 GB Maxtor (7200 RPM I believe) hard disk. I'm running it as my "Storage" hard disk. I have Azureus running and it's downloading a few torrents so that may have an affect. Anyway the front beezel of my case is off and I can touch the front of the hard disk. It is HOT. I mean if I keep my finger on it for more than 5 seconds it will burn. I downloaded a program to view the temperature of the hard disk and it is 44ºc. I know that bittorrent is write/read intensive but this program does have a "memory" cache feature where it doesn't read/write all the time, rather storing a certain ammount in the cache before reading or writing.

My question is... is this too hot? Obviously heat is not good for eletrical and mechnical items but I wonder if the hard disk might be defective and whether or not this is in the normal operating temperatutue of hard disks.

On another note I just got my RMA maxtor replacment for a 2 year old 80 GB that died. That hard disk had a 3 year warranty, this one only has a 1 year now.

Thanks
 
That's pretty hot for a hard drive. Get some air flow to go by the hard drive and it should drop the temp by at least 10 degrees I would think. Also, make sure and optimize your case for max air flow(try to tuck power wires and ide ribbons away as much as possible).

I just checked my hard drive temp and it's reporting 84F(I'm american, Celcius sucks :)). It's not even in an area where a fan goes over it, but it does have ventholes in front of the hard drive. You may want to consider a new case or modding the one you have if the airflow design is poor.
 
44 is kinda hot, but should be within the recommended temperature range (might check on Maxtor's site). My drives run around 32, but they have 2 x 80mm fans in front of them.

kubalaTF said:
What program did you download to monitor HD temps?
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I recommend MBM 5
http://mbm.livewiredev.com/

excellent program for monitoring your case and CPU temps as well
hard drive monitoring isn't on by default, so read the help file for instructions
 
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