High RPM hard drives

[Dorkenstein]

Do they need coolers, or is it a good idea even if its just to prolong its lifespan? If yes, what is a good 5.25" bay drive cooler? Thanks.

 

[her34]

according to google study, age and model are most important factor. heat and usage not so much

 

[bob4432]

personally i use some type of active cooling on all of my hdds. i know the older 10 & 15K scsi drives got quite toasty and if you look at 15K user manuals they recommend active cooling

 

[Blain]

Forget air cooling, they need WATER

 

[Roguestar]

I'm with google, they probably use more hard drives than I've had hot meals.

 

[imported_Nacelle]

If you have a case that has a fan that blows air across the drives, you set. Ever since I got an Antec Lanboy, my drive have always been cool.

 

[HannibalX]

If you want a cool and quiet HD get a 5400 or lower unit.

My 74GB Raptor is loud and hot.

 

[chizow]

Not sure how much heat actually impacts drive lifespan, but good case cooling certainly can't hurt. My 150GB Raptor X idled at 50-52C and was hot to the touch in my Lian-Li PC-65+, moved everything to my Antec Nine Hundred and temps dropped to 30-32C. Added a 2nd Raptor in the same bay and temps are the same. The RAID 0 array I ran in the Lian Li for over 3 years is still running with no problems though.

 

[Zolty]

According to Google Heat doesn't have much correlation with failure until around 45+ degrees celsius. See section 3.4

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: Zolty
According to Google Heat doesn't have much correlation with failure until around 45+ degrees celsius. See section 3.4

that is only 113F....

 

[Pariah]

Originally posted by: Zolty
According to Google Heat doesn't have much correlation with failure until around 45+ degrees celsius. See section 3.4

And that didn't really take hold until the drive was at least 3 years old. Up until that point, the temperature rate with the highest failure rate at every range was anything 30 deg C or lower (86 deg F). So anyone going all out to cool their drives is probably doing more damage than good. Unless you are stacking drives in your case and it has 0 air circulation, modern hard drives do not need active cooling.

 

[Zolty]

Originally posted by: bob4432

Originally posted by: Zolty
According to Google Heat doesn't have much correlation with failure until around 45+ degrees celsius. See section 3.4

that is only 113F....

why yes, yes it is. That is also really hot, I run a couple of 7200.10 seagate drives and they go up to 40ish on constant activity. I could turn the case fan up but meh.

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: Zolty

Originally posted by: bob4432

Originally posted by: Zolty
According to Google Heat doesn't have much correlation with failure until around 45+ degrees celsius. See section 3.4

that is only 113F....

why yes, yes it is. That is also really hot, I run a couple of 7200.10 seagate drives and they go up to 40ish on constant activity. I could turn the case fan up but meh.

you are talking to somebody from phx, az where 113F is not hot, hell in the summer my computer room gets to 85F+ easily when the rest of the condo is 75-78, so if ambient air is 85F, case air is probably 90F+ easily....

anybody know if speedfan will read scsi temps like it will from ide temps?

 

[Pariah]

Originally posted by: bob4432

Originally posted by: Zolty

Originally posted by: bob4432

Originally posted by: Zolty
According to Google Heat doesn't have much correlation with failure until around 45+ degrees celsius. See section 3.4

that is only 113F....

why yes, yes it is. That is also really hot, I run a couple of 7200.10 seagate drives and they go up to 40ish on constant activity. I could turn the case fan up but meh.

you are talking to somebody from phx, az where 113F is not hot, hell in the summer my computer room gets to 85F+ easily when the rest of the condo is 75-78, so if ambient air is 85F, case air is probably 90F+ easily....

anybody know if speedfan will read scsi temps like it will from ide temps?

Ignoring the fact you are trying to apply fringe cases to the masses, 45 deg C is the minimum temperature for that group of drives, so it can be assumed that most of them were above that. Most drives today are spec'd to operate normally up to about 55 deg C which is probably the range Google kept those drive in (45-55). There has to be something seriously wrong with your case, if you drives are hitting 130 deg F or higher.

 

[Zepper]

I always run a bit of air across my drives. It surely can't hurt unless it is heavily laden with dust. IOW, filter your intake air and air that blows across drives.

.bh.