Re: How many harddrives have died on you in your lifetime?

Gank writes:

Kind of hard to achieve below 40c in todays high end PC's.

My drives are at 29° C at this moment, with a room temperature of
22.7° C. They typically run at 30-31° C. They only heat up with
disk-intensive tasks such as backups or defrags, and even then they
usually only get up to 35° C or so.

The two drives are mounted directly in front of a 12-cm fan in the
front of the case, with incoming air blowing directly past them.

Or are we all expected to use watercooling now? Everest shows
my drives as always over 40c.

All of my drives (server and desktop) show a lifetime maximum of 35°
C. I think your drives are way too warm.

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