Hard drive temp

[lupi]

Last night my computer started getting rather slow, and after running a bunch of virus stuff I went and checked hardware stats. Seems one of my secondary hard drives reporting in at 122C. Which I found a bit odd though as when I ran it sitting in my hand out of the case, with the same reading, it wasn't much warmer than from the heat transfer from my hand. Not sure what the original problem with the computer was though, as after I removed all secondary drives, the boot drive gives me constant blue screens so reinstalling windows on it now.

 

[corkyg]

What is doing the reporting? There are many discrepancies in this area, especially if the data is derived from S.M.A.R.T., in that there is no standard adhered to by all drive OEMs.

If the drive were truly at 122C, you could not touch it.

 

[lupi]

Hardware monitor first, then downloaded something called speedfan. Both gave a 251F temp which should just about had flames coming from the case, but as I said the HD was cooler to the touch then the vid card which was showing as 40c.

I liked my ssd in my main rig enough I just added one to this a couple days ago. Had a problem initially with no disconnected the old drives that had an os on it whille installed a new os on the ssd, so think there may be a chance the slowdown and blue screen related to that. Temp thing though I have no idea other than bad sensor. Just was a hell of a lot of coincidence as all the main programs I run at startup not on the ssd are on the hot drive and first problem I noticed waas startup taking several minutes.

 

[lupi]

went and ran the WD tools and got some good news and bad news. Good news is temp was only reading in the 30's with that one. bad is the drive fails diagnostics with a code 7. Then more bad news as I go to the WD site to start an advance RMA and it tells me it doesn't have enough data to complete the rma. Which begs to ask the question, what more data could you want since I filled in all the fields of info.

 

[lupi]

got the replacement drive today and took a couple minutes to swap out the old one. Entire system now booting up faster and more in line of what I'd expect having a ssd boot drive. if I were to guess, must have had a drive that was getting faulty and the extra stress placed on it by the uptick in system speed with the ssd hurried it on it's way.