Mike Burgess <mike_burgess@yahoo.com> wrote:
[...]
> HDD's should have enough airflow to stay below 120F (as reported by
> S.M.A.R.T. diags.) Newer drives are more efficient, and are easier
> to keep cooler.
That's strange - I came to the opposite conclusion, albeit based
only on my limited experience. I had figured that with the hard
drives getting denser, packing more platters, and also spinning a lot
faster than they used to, this all increased the cooling requirements.
I've got some old hard drives that work great but unfortunately they
are basically useless for data storage due to their small sizes.
(They are still sometimes useful as a primary drive for a simple linux
install.) Newer hard drives however have seemed to like to get hot
even when they seem to be just idling, and a few have died on me.
I'm now at the point where I am super paranoid about making sure
that the hard drives in the system have direct airflow, especially
when they are the newer, 80GB+ models.
I had come to the conclusion that the reason a couple of the newer
drives died on me was the design of my tower case (which is probably
10-15 years old now) being designed for the older hard drives and there
just wasn't enough air flow for the new ones as I upgraded.
I could be wrong, as my experience is little better than
anctedotal, but if someone had asked me whether a new or old drive
would run hotter, I'd have pointed to the newer one for sure.
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