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SATA HDD Overheating

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halluc1nati0n

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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?
 
Cooling, obviously.

You need to have /some/ airflow through the spot where the harddisk(s) are.
 
Originally posted by: Peter
Cooling, obviously.

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

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