what is the optimum temperature for hard drives? Quietening the PC
- From: puck <puck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 14:46:37 GMT
i am in the process of getting this present build completely silent.
here is the setup
450watt semi passive psu by elan vittal (no fan whirring so far)
pentium m 1.7 running a 70cm fan at 7 volts (fan noise can barely be
heard from three feet away with case closed)
exceptionally quiet fluid bearing hard drives, one sata and one ide.
120mm case fan on antec case on lowest setting (no noise even with
case open)
the problem is that i need to keep a 120mm fan to blow air in from the
front that also works as a hard drive cooler. there is a whirring
noise from this fan (blades etc clean) even at 7 volts that can be
heard! this is a high quality panaflo fan suplied by my usual fan
supplier here dorothy bradbury. i have used many of these fans before
and they are not only quiet but robust. but now that everything else
is near silent, i need an alternative that would be working silently
like my 120mm fan that came with the antec case to blow air out.
kustompcs.co.uk sell a silentx fan that is supposed to be producing
14db at 12 volts. i realise that this would be virtually silent and
with my fan controllers can be made even quieter. this looks like the
alternative that i would order on tuesday.
running the pc without this front fan that blows air in is not an
option as the main hard drive active temperature is 40 degrees with
the fan on at lowest. with the fan on at full blast it would go down
to around to 32 or 33 if i use the sucker fan on the back at higer
speeds. the secondary drive which is ide which basically has all my
backup image files for work, about 30 or so divx films and hundreds of
mps never rises above 34 degrees at the lowest fan setting. this
normally idles at 28 degrees.
without the blowing in fan main sata hard drive would be 49-55
degrees. I use DTemp for hard drive temp monitoring. cpu temp is
between 38-47. mainboard temp with case closed is between 35-40.
the main hard drive is a sata 80gb maxtor with 8mb buffer. i read
somewhere last week that hard drives running at constant 40 degrees or
above do not have a long shelf life. my old 120gig ide maxtor in the
previous build ran 45-55 constantly for a year and half. while it
still works but it is noisier. i do not want the same fate to come to
this new build. basically, i am not an upgrade freak anymore and would
want to keep the present setup for at least 12-18 months and want my
main drive to last!
while it is difficult to predict life expectanchy when it coemks to
computer parts, i would appreciate some comments about hard drive life
and whether i am right to worry about temperature staying above 40
degrees.
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