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Hard drives overheating?

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markjs

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I have had several crashes where the hard drive lights up, stays on and the machine freezes. I live in Western Washington state so there is no real need for air conditioning so we don't have any but for fans. Sometimes after these crashes I have scandisks going off and further eveidnce that it's the hard drive crashing the system is that A. The Vidcard is not engaged in any action nor is it overclcocked, B. The CPU never seems to get over 55C, and C. The crash happened once during a disk defrag. So anyway the Hard drives were stacked right on top of each other and there was no breathing room for the one in the middle (C: ) because it was between the floppy drive and the other hard drive. C: is a WD 7200RPM 80GB 8MB Cache and the other one is a 7200RPM 40GB WD. I unstacked them and split them up in the case and it seems to have helped, but should they have active cooling as well?
 
well as long as yo have decent airflow and their not bunched up again they should be ok now. doesnt hurt to have fans on them though😉
 
What case do you have them in? You can always buy a hard drive fan like this Vantec or twisty tie a case fan to blow on them.
 
Even a 40mm fan blowing across the drives will work.
Western Digital and hard drives in general are only good for about 60°C before loss begins.
 
I have a very generic case with no real place for fans on the hard drives. I hope just seperating them would be enough.
 
hd don't "crash" because of heat, they slowly die. 7200 rpm should do ok in a case as long as they are touching the metal drive bays for a slight hs effect, and the case has adequate airflow. speedfan go download it and check hd temps. download the diagnostic software from ur hd manufactuerers site. check SMARt with speedfan to seeif drive is failing
 
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