Just How Hot Is Too Hot For My Hard Drive ?

I just installed a little program that tells me my hard drive temperature and almost immediately received a high temp warning.

I'm running an HP media edition laptop with a wide screen if that helps any, and here's the info from the program:



Should I be worried, or is this a normal temp for this machine.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Thanx,
anx.........



Edit to add current temp reading........

46 C
114 F




[edit on 16/6/2007 by anxietydisorder]

That Program is a temp program for your hard disk

Your Hard Drive does seem a bit warm.

"I see" said the blind man.

I'll change the title to reflect the correct problem.

Is there something I can do to bring this down, and is it a problem that could destroy my hard drive ???

My Hard drive has always run hot, since the day I installed it. I never knew how hot, though.

I just downloaded DTemp, and it tells me the temp on mine is 49 C / 120 F

Well, since you're on a laptop there's probably not a lot that you can do yourself.

I would think that perhaps there is not sufficient air flowing inside of your laptop. A good disassemble and cleaning of the dust that is sure to have accumulated in the air ways, is probably a good idea. May need a professional that works on laptops on a regular basis, as some are put together like a Chinese Puzzle.

How old is the laptop, btw?

My hard disk is always at a 105-115 degrees F

Right now its at 113 F

I would be more curious how any "PROGRAM" can accurately determine the "TEMPERATURE" of anything, much less a HDD...

What are the physics behind that...

Semper

There are temperature sensors built into newer computers and devices.

Here's the readout from my new Mac Pro using Temperature Monitor:



These figures have been pretty consistent. I know if a Mac overheats, the hardware will turn it off immediately and that hasn't happened.

edit:

Plus the fans should speed up if things get too hot, and they always seem to be on slow speed.

[edit on 6/20/2007 by djohnsto77]

Originally posted by Mechanic 32
Well, since you're on a laptop there's probably not a lot that you can do yourself.

I would think that perhaps there is not sufficient air flowing inside of your laptop. A good disassemble and cleaning of the dust that is sure to have accumulated in the air ways, is probably a good idea. May need a professional that works on laptops on a regular basis, as some are put together like a Chinese Puzzle.

How old is the laptop, btw?

I've never been afraid to go where this man has never gone before. I think I'd actually like to look inside because I've never done it before .

It's a new machine, HP Media Edition with the wide screen, and it plugs into everything I have, and that's a bonus. It's not old enough for much dust to collect yet.

Anyone know if this has a built in temperature sensor for things like the processor and hard drive, plus external drives.

Hard Disks can handle a lot of heat. If your hard disk ever exceeds 130 degrees, shut your computer down and wait at least an hour for it to cool down.

Your hard drive is a number of disks running at 7800rpm with a number or readers moving constantly all around the disk. Thats a lot of fast moving parts and they will get hot, since HDD's don't have any direct cooling it means they have to be designed to run hot.

My hard drive's run reasonably warm as well but I have a 80mm fan behind them to cool them down anyway.

Originally posted by Mechanic 32

I just downloaded DTemp, and it tells me the temp on mine is 49 C / 120 F

As an experiment, I removed my hard drive from the drive bay, and have it outside of the cabinet. It now runs around 110 F, max. Before it was 120 F normally, but would max out around 126 F.

So what I am thinking of doing, is to find an inconspicuous place to make a few more ventilation holes in the cabinet, near the drive bay. Before, when the hard drive was inside, there was no where for air to travel except for along the bottom of the hard drive, so I'm thinking of a way to modify it so that air flows a bit better around the hard drive when it is installed.

[edit on 6/21/2007 by Mechanic 32]

mine, at the worst of times, can fun at about 55C. that occurred all summer long and there was no obvious damage.

im not sure about laptops but i know that simply having a well ventilated case will solve the problem.
really though the only danger i have found is that you can burn your finger if you touch it