Shoutbox

High 40s is (depending on the drive type) quite toasty.  Over time, it may shorten the life of your drive.

Ideally,  your case would provide adequate ventilation for the hard drives, preferably a case fan near them.  You probably don't want to buy a new case just for that, but keep that in mind for the next time you have to choose one.

If you have more than one hard drive, avoid installing them stacked directly on top of each other in the 3.5" bays.  In other words, try to not do this:



The setup in that particular picture is not the worst, as the drive cage seems to leave some space between the drives, for air flow.  In some cheap cases, there is often none and that is a recipe for a thermal drive failure.

If your case has locations for case fans, either in front or the rear, which do not have a fan installed, start by getting some case fans.  When it comes to drive coolers, the design I prefer is something like this:



The problem with all drive coolers is that the small fans in them are loud and don't last that long, but if that's what it takes, something like the above is best -- because it blows outside air on the drive and actually helps reduce temperatures inside the case, instead of trying to cool the drive with already warm case air and heating that up some more.

mines at 36

cpu 41, system 29

I had to deal with the same problem a while back (somewhere halfway dec last year). I constantly had problems with the second HDD not beeing recognised (and later on both disks not recognised at times). When i installed a little program to monitor the HDD's temperature i noticed these were constantly around 48% celcius and gettin over 50/52 if used intensively for a little while.

First thing i tried was one of em frontbay fans, the white one shown in Adeptus's post (it has two little fans). It didn't get it down enough. Then i went and put a HD cooler on (under) both harddisks..the cheap blue thingies shown in Kao's post (could be another brand, but that's what they look like). That did the trick and the temp of my HDDs now stays between 28-35 degrees celcius.

So, if anything...get them blue HD cooler(s) on

just having a fan infront/behind the HDD cage works just as well as having the coolers under the HDDs tbh, I have three drives all in the same cage enxt to eachother and the middle one sits at 36ºc and hits 38ºc very rarely, I just have a fan behind them at the back of the case (exhaust) which seems to do the trick without taking up extra room using those HDD coolers.

Just get a good case with good cooling or splash out a few quid for some HDD coolers and you will have no problems

My case is designed so that the front fan is situated directly in front of the Hard drive cage. This way mine are getting constant cool air. =]

My case has a hidden slot in front of my HDD for a fan.

* vaccination will be installing one soon.

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
As said before, 46-48°C is not ot at all and quite normal (in fact, it is a relative low temperature seeing that many HDD reach 50°C with normal usage)

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my hdd in this laptop is at 33*C with normal usage <3
edit:
i guess i shall stfu then and research a bit

edit:
after researching a bit google's result seem to agree that 33 is a cool temp, and the cpu being at 50-53 is good, and relatively cool.

laptop hardware is different in that aspect.

Mine is 49*C - HDD
And my CPU is at 49*C - It's usally at 60*C and when I'm playing a game it gets it gets up too 70*C

Well I do something similar to this. 1000mm