Hard Drive Cooling question.

[macbeth]

I on my pc 24/7. Downloading stuff and all. So my question is do i need hard drive coolers? If so what is better. I know you can check your cpu and system temp in bios and in windows is use speedfan to monitor my temps. What are the safe temp for hard drive to operate?

My spec are AMD 64 2800 socket 754,
Winfast 760gxk8mc motherboard,
512ram, WD 160GB hardisk SATA,
HIS 9550, Sony DRU-810.
Cooling is stack cpu heatsink and 1x120mm intake in front, 1x120mm outtake back and a 80mm intake at the side. Casing is AVP somewhat like iCUTE.

My temps from speed fan are
Temp 1 = 41c Temp 2 = 36c Temp 3 = (changes alot from -14 to 59) HD0 = 34c and another Temp 1 =42c. After turning on for like atleast 12 hours downloading stuff, not gaming or encoding.

I suppose the highest is cpu temp and so on. My question is why temp 3 changes alot? and is 34c safe for hard drive to operate? And why are there 2 temp 1 showing?

 

[bbriand]

I recently looked into the temps of my harddrives. I have 2 WD SATA drives and a WD PATA drive in my case. I heard the SATAs run hotter so I placed both of them in front of the 120mm intake fan on my case. It blows directly across both of them.

I also bought some low profile heatsinks from a local store. I am planned on attaching the heatsinks to the harddrives (I haven't decided if I'd leave the fans on them as well since the 120mm case fan would blow across them).

I was going to run the harddrives for a while and then touch the top casing of the drives and see where they are the hottest and place the heatsinks there. Some AS5 and maybe glue them with a glue gun. Then I got lazy. 34c sounds respectable to me as I've read some peoples are over 40c - I'm no expert on HD temps though.

Bill

 

[Ketxxx]

just feel your HDD, if its rather warm then fitting a fan at the frount of your case as intake could be a good move, otherwise leave it be if its not that warm.

 

[randomperson21]

i have 2 hdds in raid right next to each other, on all the time also.
while they do get warm occasionally, i haven't seen any real reason to put special cooling on it.
Perhaps just move it down in front of the front intake fans.

 

[Zurb]

34 c is totally safe i think, the most i gotten out of mine was 59 c (i think) when i copied some gigs for some hours. perhaps im not the person to ask i killed one of my hdd ´s