Hard drive temperature

[kiepie]

I would like to know what software can I use to measure my hard drive temperature? Will there be a difference between internal and external hdd measurements?

What should the average temp. be?

 

[dracolusus]

Fanspeed....about 35-38 is ok I think. Internal and external? Erm...rate the temps you'll get will be internal, no point in measuring external I rate.

 

[Space_Cowboy]

Fanspeed/speedfan very good

aswell try everest can do stresstests aswell on HDD,CPU,VGA

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Damn, my primary hdd is running at 46 deg, is this normal? It is a 7200rpm drive.

 

[medicnick83]

45± is acceptable, anything more than 50 is worrying.

 

[leheheh]

+1 for speedfan. You can also use an app called hwmonitor

 

[Conradl]

A google study showed that hard disks have a lower failure rate when the temperature is kept between 36 and 46 degrees centigrade. Any higher or lower results in a higher failure rate. Lowering your HDD temp to below 20 is more harmful than increase the temperature above 50....

 

[Kuga]

External hard drives will generally run warmer if the case it's housed in has no fan. Just keep this in mind.

I use Everest. Used to use speedfan.