Re: Hdd WD running very hot in the drive bay 5.5"



At least for me, SMART is not very well documented. Your finger
test is all the evidence I need.

Modern drives do not generally have very large power consumption
figures while they are idle. You are reporting conditions which
were more common with some of the old SCSI drives. They could
take the heat, and for cooling, typically you would locate
three fans blowing across the old SCSI drives to cool them.
Modern drives should not need that kind of provision.

I would try contacting WD tech support, and ask them whether
an abnormally high case temp is a reason to seek a warranty
replacement. I would not want to rely on such a drive, as
a safe place to store data. High temperatures and modern drives
don't mix, and my guess would be that the drive will not last
forever in its current state. Even if you make an extraordinary
effort to cool the outside of the drive, internally there could
still be a high temperature condition in there.

You can look at the "Idle Power Dissipation" table on this
page:

http://www.storagereview.com/comparison.html

The WD drives rate pretty good in the idle power department,
so there is no reason for them to run that hot.

Paul
Well it's true getting the sensor at a lower tempeture doesn't
garantie a overall low temperute. Now i think that i will re-return
this second drive to get an other one. i hate that, i got important
data that i dont want the vendor to recover like jobs stuff and others
files. Are there any program that can remove all the data whit out
putting zero on a 250Gs drive.
.

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