some noobie questions...

a123

a123

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I just installed SpeedFan recently and realized that when i was doing a virus scan, all the temperatures started to rise and the hard drive temperatures went up to around 50C. I searched the forums and could not find the ideal temperatures for hard drives. so... what is the ideal temperature for Hard drives?

also... another question.
my Fan3 is my northbridge chipset fan so does that mean my temp3 is my chipset temperature? cuz, when i unplugged my chipset fan, SpeedFan showed that the temperature went up from 15C to 19C and then came back down to 15C, but i felt it and the heat sink was getting hotter and hotter.

and... another one
my sister's motherboard i believe has a northbridge and a southbridge... the northbridge has a heat sink and the south has nothing at all... is this fine? She's been using it for a bit more than 2 years now but nothing has happened. I just installed SpeedFan on her computer and it shows that Fan1 and Fan3 has 0rpm probably because they don't have fans, but temp1 and temp3 has temperature 127C for both and it doesn't change at all no matter when i check when start up or after hours of use. is this a sensor problem?

thx for your help :o
 
SpeedFan user here. I'll take a crack at these:D

1. Usually, a hard drive's temp should never go above 55°C/131°F. That's from Western Digital or Maxtor, I forget which.

2. In my experience, the chipset probe numbers don't automatically correspond to the fan numbers. I'm trying to think what would have such a low temperature inside a PC case!

3a. Just because a fan says 0 rpm does not mean there's no fan! It means (in MY experience) that the fan has no tachometer lead or sensor; more than likely it's a simple 2-wire fan.

3b. Temp 1 and Temp 3 of 127C that don't change is either some sort of error, or the probe settings are wrong. I have two readings that never change no matter what, 32°F (second hard drive) and 104°F (power supply). I have no idea why this happens.

Tom
 
I actually had this problem before, this is what Western Digital says about there hard drives:

The max operating temperature for their hard drives is 55C in operation, and 65C while not in operation. 40C is ideal though.
 
some motherboards don't have heatsinks on the southbridge, and that usually isn't a problem. And remember, it's speedfan, doesn't have to be correct. For example, my cpu temp, according to speedfan, fluxuates bewteen 5C and 60C, which is def. wrong.
 
Fine for now yes. 50C is pretty high for a hdd. If i was you i would get a HDD cooler or something. Heat kills!
 
my hard drive temperatures actually are at around 40-45C but it was only that time when the virus scan was on that it went up to 50+

fan noises really bug me... so i guess i'll just watch the temperature and make sure it will never go up again
 
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