SATA HDD Overheating

[halluc1nati0n]

Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA 1 (120GB) Overheating problem....
This SATA HDD gets overheated quickly.
After say 10 hrs of load time - the HDD drive cannot be accessed at all..
I'm using this HDD alongwith ASUS A8V-VM-SE motherboard...
This is detected as the 4th master .. I'm running Win XP on my 160GB IDE HDD..
What could be the problem?

 

[Peter]

Cooling, obviously.

You need to have /some/ airflow through the spot where the harddisk(s) are.

 

[halluc1nati0n]

Originally posted by: Peter
Cooling, obviously.

You need to have /some/ airflow through the spot where the harddisk(s) are.

Is 'After say 10 hrs of load time - the HDD drive cannot be accessed at all.. 'problem related to cooling/overheating also?

 

[Peter]

How should I know? Maybe it's overheating that slowly, temperatures inside the case creeping up slowly. The only person to measure that is you.

Harddisks monitor and log their well-being through the SMART framework. Get yourself some software that reads these data back, and you'll see what could be wrong.

 

[halluc1nati0n]

Bumping my old thread..
But then That SATA overheating problem just seems to be at my place..When I used it at my friends' place - There was no problem at all!
I guess - It's not got anything to do with airflow or that sort..
Probably it's coz of my mobo ASUS A8V-VM SE ...
It has the VIA8237 SATA controller (RAID) I believe. Any problems with that ?

And one more query..
I do not have any jumper settings in that SATA drive!!
So, how do I configure it as master/slave ?? :S
IS it auto configured by RAID? -> What is RAID by the way?

 

[Stumps]

Ha...I have the opposite problem with my two Maxtor's...they hate being cold, I had to pair them up close together and set the top case fan(my case has two 80mm inlet fans)to a low speed inorder to keep the Maxtor's warm.

I figured this out after much testing....my Maxtors would simply stop working and lockup the system even after many hours of use...then recently the winter mornings have been very cold (below -5c) and they were failing to spin up (no noises, absolutly nothing) and the PC would not detect them...so I did what I stated above...problem solved, they run perfectly fine now all day long with out a single problem.

Strange but true.