Hard Disc Heat

[Amarbir[CDR-Labs]]

Mates ,

What is Your opinion On This

1 :If We Keep The HDD Outside of the system case like we do in DR and do not blow air and also if we do not keep it in any heatsink kinda stuff .Whats the hottest running hdd then.IMHO its the WDC's .

[pcimage]

Also seems to depend on number of platters etc.

The more platters there are, less room for air circulation within the drive.

Given that WD drives often have the full 3 platters with some heads switched off, it's resonable to say that WD are likely candidates to get hotter than average?

[Amarbir[CDR-Labs]]

Hi ,
I Want a Solid Discussion on this With Proof ,Actually i am being pinned up on one of the indian forums that seagate is hotter and samsung is hotter .

[Odiferous]

My own opinion?

If you run Seagate - don't. They are currently the worst drives on the planet.

Samsung? In my opinion, the best drives on the planet - specifically the HD501LJ.

When I recover any drive, I place a cooling box over it - a plastic cover with a 120mm fan blowing constantly over the PCB of the drive.

In every computer I have in this business, I have 120mm fans blowing directly over the hard drives.

Heat is the main factor for failure with hard drives.

WD are rubbish at excess heat - but normally fairly easy to recover from.

I find that, in general, Maxtor drives (pre-Seagate) run hottest.

[ccc]

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Samsung? In my opinion, the best drives on the planet - specifically the HD501LJ.

And also the coolest..... I really don't know how they make it to be so cool after many many hours of continuos working...

[pepe]

I have a seagate 7200.8 250G (3 platters) and a HD501 in my system. They both are cooled directly by separate fans.
The temperatures according to SMART:
Seagate: 32 degrees C
Samsung: 25 degrees C
however they feel the same temperature if I check by hands.
So I think the temperature sensing is not that precise in these drives, I would definitely feel the 7 degrees C difference by hands...

pepe

[Amarbir[CDR-Labs]]

Mates ,

These Guys Keep On Talking About Software Sensor Testing With Utilities ,this Is Not Always Right,these Bloody WDC are So Damn HOT in My DR Experience

[Amarbir[CDR-Labs]]

Mates ,

My Good Friend There Posted a Direct Lonk To This Thread So These Guys Are Watching .I Say That If The HDD is Out And There Is NO Fan Or Heatsing .The WDC Feel The Hottest ,I Can Say By Experience .Old Mates Like Rameez ,Faizan and Kiran Should Help Me Out In This .I Am Saying In General That WDC Drive Family Is the Hottest .If We touch these drives by hand after normal stress testing som of them cannot be touched ,i feel the heat all the time

[rameez]

I would say fujitsu drives specially MPG series is the hotest bcz they produce so much heat that even itself could not bear .
After that WD because the pcb is not upwards , like in normal drives thats why these drives burn very often specially the marvell series .