Western Digital SE users: ? about heat

[joeryu]

for all you guys with WD SE drives, does your drive run hot to the touch? i just got the 120gb model and i was wondering if i need to cool the drive with a fan. thanks~!

 

[techfuzz]

I have 2 80GB and 1 120GB and neither warrant a fan, although it I can't see why it would not hurt.

techfuzz

 

[Whitedog]

Just do yourself a favor and get something blowing on it. Data loss is a very painful thing. ANYTING you can do to prevent it is well worth the effort.

I don't run any hard drives in any of my computers without a fan blowing on them... no matter how cool to the touch it seems.

Over the years, I've experienced HD crashes/data loss too many times to want to go through it again. I do everyting possible to prevent it.

It's worth it.

 

[draggoon01]

Originally posted by: Whitedog
Just do yourself a favor and get something blowing on it. Data loss is a very painful thing. ANYTING you can do to prevent it is well worth the effort.

I don't run any hard drives in any of my computers without a fan blowing on them... no matter how cool to the touch it seems.

Over the years, I've experienced HD crashes/data loss too many times to want to go through it again. I do everyting possible to prevent it.

It's worth it.

but have you noticed less crashing/more reliability, since using more fans over the hdd?

 

[warrenpeace]

I have two 80 JB's. My case (LianLi) has two fans blowing on the hard drives by design (mine are set at medium speed). My drives (well, the outer one that i can easily touch anyways) have bever been more than room temperature even after some disk intensive operations and benchmarks, and usually seem cool to the touch.

My Point ? I guess a fan or two do a great job of keeping these drives chilly.

 

[elzmaddy]

You know, I just recently had to replace a hard disk because it began to make strange sounds. I wonder if it is heat related. What's good is that my case's hard disk bay has a spot for a 80mm fan right in front, and I am going to utilize it.

 

[Lonyo]

Is there any way to get HDD temp without actually using a thermometer? (like you have for CU's etc)

 

[JubJub4]

my 120gb se never runs over a little warm to the touch

 

[goog]

They tend to run on the cool side, extra cooling shouldn't be necessary. I do have a fan blowing over my drives though since it cost $5CDN and my case has a spot for it.

 

[pm]

For mine, if it's not doing much, it's pretty cool to slightly warm, but when I start doing serious activity with it - like I Ghost one drive to the other (I have two) - it gets pretty hot pretty quickly. Lately I have been compressing movies and that keeps everything pretty hot for hours on end. On those nights, I take the cover off of the case and push up a big 3 ft. fan right up against the case pulling air. I worry a little about my SE getting too hot. It's never been "burning" hot - like over 120F - but plenty of times it has been "hot" which I would guess is 110F or so.

You can measure HD temp using S.M.A.R.T. if you have the right program. Speedfan (check google for a link) can monitor HD temps - although this doesn't seem to work with my MB and HD.

 

[RazeOrc]

well i've got 2x120JBs along with 2x80BBs and 1 seagate cuda IV, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND FANS NO MATTER WHAT, here is my reasoning. I have a "twitchy" power connector on my Enermax PSU and I used to run most of my fans (I have 4x80mm Intake enermax thermal sensed fans, 2x the same thing exhaust and a 120mm side intake over the CPU/ram) off that one connector. I never realized how important those fans were until that "twitchy" connector decided to "twitch" and most of the fans minus only the CPU and the 2 PSU fans went dead for about 6 hours while I was away. When I opened my case after immdiatley shutting down I thought I had lost everything because a blast of heat came out of my machine and the interior metal was almost burning to the touch, seems it acted like a hugh heatsink for all my hard drives after the fans died. Which in retrospect is a good thing because the more heat that interior metal takes away and the more you blow over it and the drives the better off you are. So while no it's not necessary, you will find your drives will heat up quite a bit.

Hope this helps to reiterate the need for adequate cooling for not just the mobo components but ur drives as well.

 

[Nessal]

Thats wierd though....I have the WD120JB and a Maxtor Quantum Fireball and they both would get warm at the most....almost slightly cool to the touch.

 

[glugglug]

Originally posted by: Lonyo
Is there any way to get HDD temp without actually using a thermometer? (like you have for CU's etc)

On many drives, S.M.A.R.T includes temperature data, which can be read with apps like this: D-Temp

Unfortunately, my WD1200JB does not appear to include temperature info in SMART.
The drive mounted directly above it is currently running at 72F.

 

[Paulson]

I've had a few hard drives go and I don't think it's due to heat, but you never know..

I run diagnostics and back up stuff over 3 hard drives... if that fails, well I'm screwed...