Hard Drive Temperature..

Hey everyone, just curious if 45c is too hot for a laptop hard drive.

I'm using a program and its warning me about the heat saying to back-up data blah blah blah.. its been like that (heat wise) ever since I bought the laptop.

Which program are you using to check the heat?

Dinesh said:

Which program are you using to check the heat?

Well it wasn't a program specifically for that, but I was checking out this program called EnhanceMySe7en.

Also Fedora 11 claims I have a failing hard drive (failed to respond to SMART tests, but anything thats not Fedora based doesn't say its failing). :S

DarkNovaGundam said:

Hey everyone, just curious if 45c is too hot for a laptop hard drive.

I'm using a program and its warning me about the heat saying to back-up data blah blah blah.. its been like that (heat wise) ever since I bought the laptop.

Hi DarkNovaGundam,

I would say this is very good temp for your hard drive.
Few years ago Google published special raport about HD failures it is still available as .pdf document here:
http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf

The optimal temperature for HD is from 35C to 46C, in this range the AFR% is the smallest.

You can also can read this full explanation about this Google test:
Google - Hard Drive Failures - High Temps May Not Cause Failures - Maybe ? ~ The Blade by Ron Schenone MVP


HTH,
Creer

Creer said:

Hi DarkNovaGundam,

I would say this is very good temp for your hard drive.
Few years ago Google published special raport about HD failures it is still available as .pdf document here:
http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf

The optimal temperature for HD is from 35C to 46C, in this range is AFR% is the smallest.

You can also can read this full explanation about this Google test:
Google - Hard Drive Failures - High Temps May Not Cause Failures - Maybe ? ~ The Blade by Ron Schenone MVP


HTH,
Creer

Thanks Then why do things keep telling me my HDD is too hot! (or failing) I realize I have a crappy hard drive, but its no reason for the software to lie to me!

DarkNovaGundam said:

Thanks Then why do things keep telling me my HDD is too hot! (or failing) I realize I have a crappy hard drive, but its no reason for the software to lie to me!

The softwares are made by humans :)
If developer set the critical temp range for HD from eg. 44C up then you see what happens.
Don't worry about it.

Creer said:

The softwares are made by human :)
If developer set the critical temp range for HD from eg. 44C up then you see what happens.
Don't worry about it.

And fedora telling me my HDD is failing? o.o I remember it saying that it wasn't responding to its SMART tests. :S

DarkNovaGundam said:

And fedora telling me my HDD is failing? o.o I remember it saying that it wasn't responding to its SMART tests. :S

Sorry I misreading your previous post. About failing disk SMART raport should tell you the truth.
Did you check SMART under Windows (eg. HD Tune)?
Can you post here your screenshot with SMART?

Creer said:

Sorry I misreading your previous post. About failing disk SMART raport should tell you the truth.
Did you check SMART under Windows (eg. HD Tune)?
Can you post here your screenshot with SMART?

HD Tune (non-Pro) shows my HD Temp as 49C.. What program do you suggest I use to get the SMART Status (for the screenie to upload?)

EDIT: 51C now, though thats likely because I'm having HD Tune do a quick scan (which is slow).

DarkNovaGundam said:

HD Tune (non-Pro) shows my HD Temp as 49C.. What program do you suggest I use to get the SMART Status (for the screenie to upload?)

EDIT: 51C now, though thats likely because I'm having HD Tune do a quick scan (which is slow).

Check the SMART status in HD Tune 2.55 (it is free) tab Health and post here screenshot.
I see that your temp in every minute is higher... not good 51C is high temp for hd.