Way To Hot? Should I complain...65c

Bories36 · Post by **Bories36** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 1:54 pm

No not me silly

My hard drive...in my dell

Heres my system specs (2 yrs old)

3.2ghz p4
x550 VGA
512 400mhz ddr ram
and a 160gb Western Digital Hardrive

Well, I got speed fan, and mother board monitor and they both say my hard drive runs at 60-65 degrees celcius. Then I ran a defragmentation and it went to 66, normally, like right know its 62c.

Know when I surf around I see hard drive temps at 25-50c, not 66...

Is 66 way to hot, cause my computer has been freezing up lately...

to bad theres nothing I can do because theres no room to do anything with it in my case.

Also it the HD vibrates all the time, I have to put my hand on my comp to make it stop

Should I complain to dell? or just way till my hard drive fails and tell them, because I've heard anything over 45c shortens the life of your HD.

Thanks

DanW · Post by **DanW** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 2:12 pm

are you sure it's your HDD? It could be an over heating battery

Check here: https://www.dellbatteryprogram.com/Default.aspx

Post by **Rusty075** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 2:18 pm

Can't really do anything until it fails. Dell never promised you a "cool" computer, or a quiet one, all their warranty promises is that it will last as long as the warranty. If it's locking up on you, start calling tech support...maybe you'll get a new HDD out of it.

qviri · Post by **qviri** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 2:27 pm

DanW wrote:are you sure it's your HDD? It could be an over heating battery

Check here: https://www.dellbatteryprogram.com/Default.aspx

He has a desktop.

darthan · Post by **darthan** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 2:42 pm

Yeah, what Rusty said. Also, BACKUP!!! 66C is above the rated operating temps for every normal desktop drive (that I've heard of) so it probably will end up killing the drive. Make sure any precious data, or even data you kinda sorta maybe like is saved somewhere else. It's kind of a pain, but at least it's better than paying hundreds of dollars for data recovery.

Bories36 · Post by **Bories36** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 3:33 pm

nah, we got nothing to back up

Besides being hot, my comp is sort of quiet, only 1 case fan, to bad my HD vibrates

Howard · Post by **Howard** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 7:41 pm

If you take the drive out of the case and place it on your desk (try putting it on one of the long, thin sides so it stands up), what temp does it stabilize at?

Note: make sure no conductors or magnets are nearby.

disphenoidal · Post by **disphenoidal** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:14 pm

Would the SMART reader in speedfan also tell you if the drive was overheating? Or if it was just about to die...

zenboy · Post by **zenboy** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:36 pm

HDTune can also read SMART data.

wwenze · Post by **wwenze** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 2:11 am

If your Dell is this,

then I roughly know why it can run so hot. Replaced and recovered data from a dead HDD for one of my client.

Bories36 · Post by **Bories36** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 1:37 pm

wwenze wrote:If your Dell is this,

then I roughly know why it can run so hot. Replaced and recovered data from a dead HDD for one of my client.

No, its the verticle one, that kind is the kind in my school