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I dont understand this at all. All the programs I ran detected that my hard drive is 215 degrees celsius. I dont udnerstand becuase when i feel the drive with my own hands it is very cold. IT doesnt feel hot at all. What should I do I am so confused and isnt 215 degrees celsius when i should be able to detect and smell smoke because i dont see ANY smoke or no signs of overheating in the computer in general. (I mean I ran the computer and looked inside and detected no sign of overheating). This drive has never overheated b4 and the temperature keeps rising and i see no signs of it. I am so confused can someone help me.
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its weird too becaue i have two hard drives on my computer. One of my hard drives read 25 degrees celsius and the other reads 215 degrees celsius. THIs is no JOKE it is celsius temperature. But the hard drive runs just fine and i see no signs of it being slow at all. I am assuming that this is some kinda of hard ware problem that misidentified the temparature. I guess what I do is keep it on till something happens then I post back here for help. Just in case i going to make back ups of the 215 celsius hard drive.
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Also reading the drive history it said the hard drive was at 66 degrees celsius 4 days ago but now its 227 degrees celsius. I failed to understand this I am checking the temperatur eof hard drive with like 5 programs and they all read the same. I guess I go buy another hard drive and copy all the data over to be safe.
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Don't be REdiculous! 215C = 419F! Your HDD would have died a LONG time ago! Obviously your temps are being reported incorrectly. Trust your hand...you touched it & it doesnt "feel hot at all", so don't worry about it.
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ahh nevermind u guys I was freaking out too much. The hard drive did read 250 degrees Celsius but I soon as I turn on the computer and saw 250 degrees celsius i turned it off. But this time i waited and turned the computer on. After about 10 mins the hard drive that read 250 degrees read 18 degrees celsius. I guess I diddnt wait long enough for the computer to process to hard drives temp.
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>> After about 10 mins the hard drive that read 250 degrees read 18 degrees celsius. <<
That's going from one extreme to the other. 18 degrees C is ridiculously low. The normal operating temperature for a hard drive is around 30-40 degrees C. I wouldn't trust those temperature censors for one moment regardless of what they say.
Stuart
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In the twenty years I have been using computers I have never come across a hard disk where you could update the firmware. So I think that might be a difficult solution to implememnt.
Stuart
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Buy a good case to start with and space out the drives and you do need to monitor the drive temps. Its' not like a CPU where a fan can fail and cause problems.
I figured you were jerking someones chain with those readings. Water boils at 100 Celsius.
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OtheHill
I somehow think that was a typo for "you doN'T need to monitor the drive temps" - correct me if I'm wrong.
215C, might be able to fry an egg on it LOL.
DerekW
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Derek, That was no typo. You don't need to monitor harddrive temperatures. You can monitor case and CPU temps but HD is overkill IMO. Obviously the HD in question couldn't possibly be 215C. You fry eggs at 300F. Conversion formula from C to F is C x 9/5 + 32. That equals 419F. In the USA house wiring coatings are rated for 90C. Wiring would fry at 215C.
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In #9 you said "you do need to".
Yeah, happy with F<>C (did my stint on air conditioning) but I guess I like raw eggs...
DerekW
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@ Stuart
Recently, Seagate support emailed me a firmware update for my 500GB 7200.9 so that it would play nice with the nForce 4 Ultra's weirdo SATA controllers. It was a godsend.
"If it ain't broke, upgrade anyway."
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