Hard Drive Cooling

[Duffman]

The thing with the hd's is its not like a cpu, cooling it only cools it, where as cooling the cpu allows for overclocking. Now some people to cool the hd but only under extreme overclocking where the temp of the hd can affect the lowering of the cpu... I think that explains it better.

[mattesca]

yeah in my case i have a intake blowing on it so like u said it would be fine

[zapjb]

Any HDD I had that had temps consistently of high 40'sC or got into the 50'sC always failed. So I use DTemp a little freeware exe that gives me HDD temps & SMART attributes & more. So 42C & lower temps are what I consider OK HDD temps.

[tesco]

My drive gets very hot with no fans or anything...

but just put one fan near the hard drive as an intake (mine is currently at the bottom of the case cause i haven't got around to removing the front fan grill yet...but it cools the vid card a little as well so im not sure if moving it would be good ) and it keeps the drive running about the same heat as if i was to touch my cd drives or power supply or something (not hot at all).

so just install an intake fan and that's sufficient.


I see that antispam still isn't gone.

[abu_has_the_power]

hey, u guys remember my "magical" hdd? its doin 30C rite now. in winter, it goes down to 20-26C.