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Recently purchased external HDD is overheating (Intenso/Toshiba)
Hello,
I have recently purchased Intenso Memory Center 3.5" 3TB USB3 (Toshiba DT01ACA300 inside). It's temperature is 49 degree Celsius, when idle and went up to 57, when I was formatting it.
As far as I know, temperature 50 and above are dangerous for hard drives and my oldest one, Seagate ST3320620AS, doesn't go above 48 during full defragmentation process.
I have installed fan cooler on it, making it's idle temperature going down to 42 and load temperature down to 49. After monitoring it's SMART readings for a week, I have not encountered any errors or problems.
What bothers me is additional electricity consumption by fan and possible data loss in the future due to it's heating. Should I contact my supplier warranty service for replacement and would they bother with this problem? Or it is safe to use it and I shouldn't bother with customer service red tape?
Thank you for your replies in advance.