OK, as most of you know I just had a 200g and a 320g go out. For a few days my system was quite, now I am starting to get a noise as I did before once and awhile. My HDD temps. are between 39 and 46c. I am not getting any warnings on boot yet. But want to prevent another one from going. I am just hoping that it is just my luck and its bad equipment.

HDTune can tell you a lot about your drives, including the SMART status.

http://www.hdtune.com/

39 (102f) is a bit warm, but nothing really bad, and 46 (114.8f) is getting a little warm depending on the drive. Currently, my primary computer's HDD is running at 29c (84f).

How old are your drive(s)?

I have two Seagate disks..One 320 and other 200 GB, Temperature is 32 degrees on my system disk (320 GB) and 30 degrees on my other disk (200GB), so I presume that's OK.

BTW, they're cooled by one big 12cm fan from the front of the Thermaltake Kandalf case..

HDTune can tell you a lot about your drives, including the SMART status.

http://www.hdtune.com/

39 (102f) is a bit warm, but nothing really bad, and 46 (114.8f) is getting a little warm depending on the drive. Currently, my primary computer's HDD is running at 29c (84f).

How old are your drive(s)?

OK

320g I just got a couple days ago, it was a replacement from the one that went bad. it is at 43c. I have it partitioned into 6 drives and 1 partition is what I have my OS on.

80g is a temp until I get my 200g and that one is over a year old replacement, that is at 37c.

320g is a little over 2 months old no partitions and it is at 45c.

I have 3 fans on my tower. It came wit 2 but I added 1 to keep it cooler. I removed the expantion card covers and set fan there. I have 2 fans blowing out air and 1 blowing in.

Do you think I need to investing in a colling system or a new case. My current one is a Apollo ATX Mid Tower

Edited December 9, 200717 yr by LUZR4LIFE

HDTune can tell you a lot about your drives, including the SMART status.

OK, I DL'd it and and all the HDD's status was OK.

On one drive it has this screenshot.

Is that going to be a issue?

OK, I DL'd it and and all the HDD's status was OK.

On one drive it has this screenshot.

Is that going to be a issue?

That's really high temperature for a disk, can you get a cooler for it?

That's really high temperature for a disk, can you get a cooler for it?

I guess I am going to have to. Do you think a new tower would be better?

I guess I am going to have to. Do you think a new tower would be better?

Well, if you can afford it then yes, if not you can only buy coolers.

Well, if you can afford it then yes, if not you can only buy coolers.

OK, it looks expensive for liquid cooling. I have 3 fans already, so do you think that replacing the fans would work? If not I guess I would have to get a new case. Also what case would you recommend? I don't want to buy a new one that will not work. Thanks.

You don't have to take liquid cooling, you can buy Thermaltake case which will be more than enough..

I had a hard drive failure when I lost a hockey puck and used my hard drive. It worked a few days but was making a lot of noise.

My WD 250gb runs at 34'c with just a simple PSU fan (mounted in front of the PSU and it pulls air through the front of the case to the back). I thought 34' was a bit warm, but after reading a lot of the temps other people get, its not surprising to me because of the work it does.

I'll see what my 2 500Gb drives show up as when I get them for Christmas

Nice... 1TB

OK, my temp got to 50C so I shot down and took my system apart. I moved my side panel fan up to t he front next to the HDD's, hopefully that will keep them cool. Now I just have to get some cash to replace the side panel one.

Thanks everyone for your suggestions and help.

Let us know the new temperatures once finished your new setup :sweatingbullets:

I had a hard drive failure when I lost a hockey puck and used my hard drive. It worked a few days but was making a lot of noise.

ROFLAMO you are just to good to be true :thumbsup_anim:

Let us know the new temperatures once finished your new setup :sweatingbullets:

OK after 13 hours the temp has not changed :thumbsup_anim: so I think I am good to go. LOL

Who are your drive manufacturers? Both good and bad. I wouldn't mind finding out as I'm replacing one of my HDDs from bad sectors.

Who are your drive manufacturers? Both good and bad. I wouldn't mind finding out as I'm replacing one of my HDDs from bad sectors.

I had 2 Hitachi 320g, 1 went out. I got them both from a HP 8120n I gutted. HP overnighted a replacement for the 1 320g with a WD replacement.

The 200g that went out also is a WD. I have to get the shipping money to get that replaced. Now the 320g that hasn't gone out, I have this showing on it which I do not know what it means.

I found out that my issue was that my harddrivers were over heating and that was what caused them to go. I re modded my case and now my temps stay under 35C.

How old were your Hitachi and WD drives?

Edited December 13, 200717 yr by Tarun

How old was your Hitachi and WD drives?

The 320g Hitachi was only around 2 months old and the 200g WD was around 7 months old

One of my replacements just arrived. 160GB 7200RPM Hitachi SATA2 drive. They told me it was going to be a Seagate, so I called and told them and they simply apologized. After giving them some grief they told me as per customer satisfaction, I will be getting a replacement hard drive made by Seagate.

One of my replacements just arrived. 160GB 7200RPM Hitachi SATA2 drive. They told me it was going to be a Seagate, so I called and told them and they simply apologized. After giving them some grief they told me as per customer satisfaction, I will be getting a replacement hard drive made by Seagate.

Is SeaGate the best to get?

Just an FYI, I've got 2 WD drives that are at least 3 or 4 years old. One is a 160 and one is a 200 gig which were pretty huge at the time. The 200 is on this machine with no front cooling on it and it's a pretty steady 31(ish) degrees C.

From my experiences, Seagate is the best you can get. They even have great warranties on their hardware.