[Starion]

Does anyone have experience with temperatures for hard disk drives?

My new computer has two hard drives:
A 100 GB Seagate that spins at 7200 RPM. This drive has an SATA interface.

I also have a 60 GB Maxtor drive that spins at 5200 RPM. This drive has the old ATA interface. Both drives seem to be OK. I haven't seen any bad sectors.

I have recieved some notices about the raw read write S.M.A.R.T value changing. The values are well above the T.E.C. threshold though.

Under heavy load, my SATA drive reaches 51 degrees C and my older Maxtor drive reaches 47 degrees C. Are these high temperatures normal? I don't know much about SATA drives. I'm a little worried about the high temperatures. Seagate says that the ambient operating temperature of 60 degrees.

The only fans I have are in the power supply unit and on the CPU's heatsink.


Here are the current temperatures in Celcius that SpeedFan reports:


CPU: 42
Ambient: 42
Remote: 57
SATA drive: 48
ATA drive: 46
Temp1: 40

My room's temperature is 25.5 degrees Celsius or 78 degrees Fahrenheit.

I think the remote temperature is on the motherboard somewhere or maybe in the power supply.

I'm thinking of buying a case fan and mounting it on the back. In the mean time, I'll keep watching the temperatures.

Edit: I forgot something: My case is a tower case that is 15 inches tall.

Any advice or opinions will be greatly appreciated!