Hard Drive Issues
Saturday, March 10, 2012 by kona0197 | Discussion: Personal Computing
Just curious. I recently picked up a system with a 1 TB Western Digital hard drive. This drive puts out a decent amount of heat. Is that normal?
Reply #2 Saturday, March 10, 2012 4:39 AM
Not sure of the exact temp, I have no program to tell me. Just very hot to the touch.
Reply #3 Saturday, March 10, 2012 5:03 AM
Download aida32/aida64, depending on your OS whether its 32 bit or 64 bit. Then you can check sensor section (image posted below to show where)
Reply #4 Saturday, March 10, 2012 5:19 AM
The trial version of AIDA64 will not allow me to see the hard drive temp. Sorry.
Reply #5 Saturday, March 10, 2012 5:31 AM
SpeedFan or CoreTemp - both free (will check for web and proper name on that second)
SpeedFan is http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
Forget the other, it's name is GPU Temp and is only GPU
I been using one sporadically called "Crystal Disk Info" Seems to do a complete job of analyzing the disk. http://crystalmark.info/?lang=en Its produced in Japan.
Reply #6 Saturday, March 10, 2012 5:39 AM
Speedfan reports the drive is running around 93F. SMART status checks out fine. Is 93F normal? That's hotter than my CPU is running.
Reply #7 Saturday, March 10, 2012 5:51 AM
My sick hard drive is running at 40C and regularly passes 55 (but it is a laptop hard drive, so I think they are supposed to run cool)
I just installed it on my very ancient Dell desktop and it is running at 34C
PS, I edited my original note. (messages got passed I think)
Reply #8 Saturday, March 10, 2012 6:08 AM
93ºF is 33ºC so yeah it's a pretty healthy temp.
Reply #9 Saturday, March 10, 2012 6:12 AM
Ha... I didn't notice that was Fahrenheit, I'm so used to anything computer being in Celsius. I was thinking yours was running way hot... lol
Reply #12 Saturday, March 10, 2012 6:56 AM
Fan isn't needed just make sure that the hard drive isn't in an enclosed area where there is little airflow. Also clear out any settled dust it helps a lot
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Reply #1 Saturday, March 10, 2012 4:03 AM
What temps are you recording ? around 30ºC is normal