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Hot hard drives
Name: stanshoe Date: July 17, 2004 at 11:48:02 Pacific OS: Win XP CPU/Ram: AMD 1.67/768mb
Comment:
I recently replaced my slave drive and noticed that both drives were very hot to the touch. I have three 3.5" bays with two hard drives and a floppy in them. Is it just that there isn't enough airflow to keep them cool? Or is something wrong here?
Name: Wolfeymole Date: July 17, 2004 at 12:05:33 Pacific
Reply:
Hi Stan If you were spinning at either 5400 or 7200rpm wouldn't YOU feel hot? Don't worry about it mate nothing's going wrong. Wolfster
On a hot summers night would you offer your throat to the Wolf with the Red Roses?
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Response Number 2
Name: stanshoe Date: July 17, 2004 at 12:22:50 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks. I was just checking. Never noticed them being that hot before.
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Response Number 3
Name: Wolfeymole Date: July 17, 2004 at 12:35:59 Pacific
Reply:
Hi again Stan Just as an after thought are the bays for the HDD's removable? If not it's not a problem it's just that, once you shut down they will cool down faster once you have removed them obviously. I used to have a midi tower type of PC (That you couldn't swing a mouse(the rodent version lol) in with 2x20gig and 1x15gig HDD,s in it and that got hot but with no problems. Yours again Wolfster
On a hot summers night would you offer your throat to the Wolf with the Red Roses?
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Response Number 4
Name: stanshoe Date: July 17, 2004 at 12:52:49 Pacific
Reply:
No removable bays, but I DID move one drive to one of the CD bays so it wouldn't have anything next to it (just for my own piece of mind).
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Response Number 5
Name: ham30 Date: July 17, 2004 at 14:31:29 Pacific
Reply:
Good idea Stanshoe.
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Response Number 6
Name: SkipCox Date: July 17, 2004 at 19:52:17 Pacific
Reply:
Just glue, ziptie, hang from the wires, or whatever to allow a fan to provide some airflow around and over the hdd's.
It takes only a little extra airflow over the hdd's to lower temps dramatically.
Skip
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Response Number 7
Name: stanshoe Date: July 18, 2004 at 07:51:04 Pacific
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