What are normal HD temps?

Archangel

Archangel

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well... i have a WD harddisk in my pc (250Gb 16Mb chache),. and Everest say's the temp of it is 50~55 degrees C,.. wich seems pretty hot to me,.
My case didnt have the 2,5" slots bracket anymore, so the HD is mounted in a 5,25" bay, using the Zalman ZM-2HC1
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using this cooler dropped my temps by about 10*C,.. so it was even higher before i usead it. But,.. are these temp's extremely high, or is it normal?
 
Ill check the temps using speedfan when im home again,.. and i couldnt find the HD temps when i used asusprobe II,.. but reading your post, my temps seem to be incredibly high
 
Someone else was also concerned when using Everest when the cpu temp was seen at 75C lately. That wasn't the actual temp reported by SpeedFan later. Often some of the monitoring programs have their own glitches giving off false readings or are not suitable for the board you have.

Your board is or should be equipped with a hardware monitor in the bios. That will also give you a better reading directly from the board's sensor's. If your thermal compound isn't as good as AS5 that could be a possible concern. If you run SpeedFan you will note the top reading or #1 is for the cpu with the #2 for the board.
 
my motherboard goes to 55*C tough, and my HD seems to be hot, My grafic's cards and CPU are really fine tough.
 
And that is with which one? SpeedFan? When first rebuilding the old case with the new board and cpu the idle to small load temp seen on the board was 46C-48C.

Upon buying the new case with the large front intake and rear exhaust plus two additional 120mm fans on the side cover the idle is now down as far as 31C-33C with the idle to small load temp there. The 939 model boards run warmer then the old Socket A models or even the 754s. You probably will need additional or larger fans to keep those down if SpeedFan is showing this.
 
I'm getting a new PSU, then i'll connect the 2 120mm Fans i already bought.
the Motherboard temp as measured with Asus probe btw, the HD temps with Everest. but my motherboard isnt know by everest, so i can only see the HDD and GPU temps there
 
It may be because you mounted it in the 5.25" bay. Since usually the hard drive bay is right next to the front fan, which would blow cool air over it and cool it down.
 
im thinking of putting in 1 120mm fan right unter the HD blowing air up, and cutting some holes in the bottom of the bay,.. i hope that will work,..
but you people do agree the temp is pterry high?
 
The mounting in the bay is with a Zalman hard drive cooler. The problem there is not so much location but software. A hard drive is generally immediately under the bottom 5 1/4" bay. You wouldn't see the large rise in temps especially with a cooler inplace. You should be seeing the opposite.
 
When i get home, i think ill just remove the HD from the 5.25 bay, and lay it on top of my case, and then look how hot it is,.. I just think if it..maybe something isnt full in place in my HD< so it produces a lot of friction heat ( i mean,.. 7200rps constantly is a lot, so its possible i gues, i dont hear anything tough. but ill see when i get home again
 
Archangel said:
im thinking of putting in 1 120mm fan right unter the HD blowing air up, and cutting some holes in the bottom of the bay,.. i hope that will work,..
but you people do agree the temp is pterry high?
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Yea, that's pretty high. My drive is usually only 23C or so.
 
What sort of airflow does the drive have? An extravagent cooler for a hard drive wont help if there isnt any air to take the heat away.
 
Run SpeedFan on there and compare the temps seen there. I think you will find that Everest is the problem. With the free version of Everest discontinued there hasn't been any updated versions that will run on the newer systems properly. Someone seeing super high cpu temps with Everest switched to SpeedFan to suddenly start seeing normal temps being read.
 
im thinking of putting in 1 120mm fan right unter the HD blowing air up, and cutting some holes in the bottom of the bay,.. i hope that will work,..
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That will work fine. Even a 80mm fan will do.
 
Cromewell said:
That will work fine. Even a 80mm fan will do.
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The added cooling never hurts to get the air circulating inside especially with the newer Asus boards. The temps seen with the drive are well above the norm there however. There's either a misreading by Everest or a faulty sensor which seems far less likely. If the drive was that hot a chip on the drive's own controller card would be cooking. !:eek: Everest has given others exagerated readings where that was the problem not the hardware.
 
I wouldn't say they are that far out of the norm. The average temperature for a drive in a low airflow case is about 45*C. Add to the fact that archangel doesn't have an exaust fan (using the zalman CPU cooler in place of one I assume) and a pair of 7800GTXs. On top of that it's a passively cooled nF4 heatpiped with the SPP 100 with a fairly small heatsink to cool it all.

I agree getting more air moving in the case is a good idea. There's a lot of heat in there and probably not a whole lot of air movement right now.
 
Archangel said:
im thinking of putting in 1 120mm fan right unter the HD blowing air up, and cutting some holes in the bottom of the bay,.. i hope that will work,..
but you people do agree the temp is pterry high?
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Yes, I'd say those temps are very high. I have a Vantec Vortex HDD cooler and with the fan off my temps are around 44°C, on low it's 33°C, and on high it's 30°C.

EDIT: crap, I clicked on the thread and it took me to the 1st page and I didn't realize that there was a 2nd page...oh well...
 
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