harddrive temp.

[Raven]

hi

got 3 harrddrives ranging from 44 tio 47 celsius in idle temp.

hitachi

ibm

seagate.

when does it become dangerously hot ?

Regards

Raven

 

[JN]

Hard disks are fairly resistant to high temperatures (although it does shorten their life a bit). I've seen disks running at close to 70oc 24/7. IMO ur temps arn't anything to worry about.

 

[FarFarAway]

Maxtors are the worst for having temperature problems...and yours arent maxtor - or hot

 

[Raven]

70celsius is way to hot.

would atleast cause problems with harddrives using ballbearings as the grease went out and onto the platters making it harder for the harddrive to spinup.

had that problem myself.

 

[Raging]

70c shouldnt do anything to grease really i wouldnt have thought:eh:

ive had greased things that must get well hotter than 70c and the grease has never gone away

my previous hobby was rc and there is all sorts of greases n stuff involved

you will probly be suprised how resillient bearing grease is.

but feel free to correct me if i am wrong hehe as it was some while ago now.

cheers.

 

[Raven]

checked up on the manufactures.

5-55celsius for the hitachi and ibm and up to 60 for the seagate.

must say seagate has a very bad page.

the specs page lacked very much information.

 

[Raven]

but feel free to correct me if i am wrong hehe as it was some while ago now..

their is grease and grease so i think your wrong there.

must be atleast 2 years if not 3 years i read a page regarding harddrives and heat and they wrote deeply about the subject and how it shows itself and i have had one hardrive with that problem.

sometimes refusing to spinup but spinning up fine the next time.

twist the harddrive when it refuses to spinup to use the momentum to help turn the disc and the harddrive spins up.

but these days harddrives uses fdb instead of ballbearings and that is liquid oil if i remember right.

but another thing to think about is a cool harddrive works much better and safer than a warm harddrive and considering i only have 24 celsius indor now and its still winter im definitly going to do something about it before summer heat comes.

and the temps was idle temp.

they can go up 5-10 celsius during a virus scan for example.

i like to run my equipment cools as heat is one of the worst enemies towards electronics.