Wow I first thought 42 was ambient.....someone needs a new AC.
Anyways...what is the ambient temp. That's the temperature of the room/environment where the computer is. If you're room is 40c, a drive at 50c isn't as big of a deal as a room at 20c with the drive at 50c.
42 degrees ambient.lol His computer must be in the oven.
My room is about 18 degrees now and Har Drive is idling at 23 degrees now
.So yeah a few degrees above ambient is normal.
Otherwise just install a good fan behind the hard drive
My room is 17c. I'm in England we don't use AC. It's always cool
I just checked again. And the hard drive is 46c under load now...
At night the hdd is warmer because I close my door and windows.. and I put the hdd on top of the cdrom drive when I took that reading. I've since moved it onto the proper hdd tray thing inside the case and it's 46c at load (but climbing slowly)..
When I say 'load' I mean I'm reading and writing (inverting 0s to 1s and back again, four times) at full force.
Yah, my case totally sucks. No side panel even XD The motherboard is being held up by a piece of wood also... I should take a photo >.<
I guess I don't need to worry. 30c idle and 46c extreme load seems fine. but it is raising slowly
I was just about to make a thread on this. I'm 38C idle for the sig rig in a 15C room right now. The past few weeks were hot (it's unusually chilly right now) and it would go up to 43C and stay there with the AC on. During the winter it would be on 32C.
I always hated the heat. I can't sleep in it, and now I can't even play my PS3 or use my PC for too long because of a fear of overheating.
"In fact, there is a clear trend showing that lower
temperatures are associated with higher failure rates.
Only at very high temperatures is there a slight reversal
of this trend."
It seems in the real world hard drives tend not to fail due to heat (30-50c). Failures naturally increase with age anyway. Less than 30c on new drives is bad XD
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