Hard drive overheating ???

[Coffee is good :)]

I used this portable program called "Hard Drive Inspector Portable" and it keeps warning me that my HDD is overheating. I can't imagine that imminent hardware failure is near considering the area over the hard drive on my laptop has always been considerably warm. I've got an HP dv6500t (2.5 years old).

Should this be cause for concern at all?

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[Morrison5891]

I would think so ... have you check the temps with any other programs just to validate? SIW is a great program. Any smart errors?

 

[Coffee is good :)]

I would think so ... have you check the temps with any other programs just to validate? SIW is a great program. Any smart errors?

Everything reports the same temps. My hard drive is running at 130 degrees F and 55 degree C. I don't know if that's abnormal or not.

 

[Morrison5891]

Everything reports the same temps. My hard drive is running at 130 degrees F and 55 degree C. I don't know if that's abnormal or not.

Anything over 115/120 degree's ... I would be a little worried. Can you connect the HDD to a PC via usb adapter and monitor it for a while to see if its still running that warm. It might cool of a little bit maybe... but i'd for sure keep my eye on it. Maybe do a complete backup just in case.

 

[Alan22]

Everything reports the same temps. My hard drive is running at 130 degrees F and 55 degree C. I don't know if that's abnormal or not.

Go to the hard drive manufacturer website, look up the model of the drive and read the specs for operating temps. Generally, the operating temp range for hard drives is 5 to 50 degrees Celsius, but this varies depending on the drive.

 

[Coffee is good :)]

Go to the hard drive manufacturer website, look up the model of the drive and read the specs for operating temps. Generally, the operating temp range for hard drives is 5 to 50 degrees Celsius, but this varies depending on the drive.

Ambient Temperature:
Operating 41 - 131OF (5 to 55C) < It's currently at 55!

I've seen the temps before in the past, but never used a program that gave me a warning until today. I bet my drive's always ran this hot. The area over my hard drive is the hottest spot on my laptop. ITS DAMN HOT lol

 

[Alan22]

Ambient Temperature:
Operating 41 - 131OF (5 to 55C) < It's currently at 55!

I've seen the temps before in the past, but never used a program that gave me a warning until today. I bet my drive's always ran this hot. The area over my hard drive is the hottest spot on my laptop. ITS DAMN HOT lol

Get one of those laptop chill pads. They really do make a difference.

 

[ProTech Support]

Honestly, I do not think that temp is out of the norm for a laptop. I have a Compaq that constantly runs at 155F. I know it is hot, but I have tried everything (including a chill mat), but no results. I have had the laptop for about 4 years and never had an issue. Some laptops just run hot.

 

[Colt]

I have a old Toshiba touch screen in my service truck ( mounted ), that dude runs 120-130 all day long ( the mount has a cooling pad built in ). Has 9K switch on hrs, it's always been like that. The only time it goes lower is when I'm driving and the A/C is on.. I have to be careful during the winter when the heater is on, so that I dont over heat it with the vehicle heater LOL.. That laptop has always ran hot since day one, I have a few smaller Portege touch screen's that run really hot as well.. Oddly enough, this drive has ran more hrs than any other laptop HDD I've ever had and she's still running strong.

The laptop I'm on now, runs 93 degree's with a max of 103 so far, this drive has 963 hrs on it ( wow, it's only a few months old too )..

I also have a old HP, the old war horse. I know the drive is bad in it, it runs 115, used to run anywhere from 99 to 110. But the issues with it dont include anything mechanical. My guess is that the increased seek time is what's heating it up.

The HDD's in my server have 30K plus switch on hrs, they typically run 10 degree's above ambient. I have a few 1TB Seagate drives in USB enclosures that run 5 degree's above ambient, but those are cooled enclosures.

So my point to this is, you really dont know whats high or whats normal until you've monitored it for a while. I expect to see laptop HDD's run quite a bit higher than desktop HDD's for the obvious reason's. Unless I see a laptop drive running 130 in a 75 degree room while idling, then I dont worry.

 

[Corbin]

I had a acer that was running at 58c but it was just fine, I did notice when I unpluged it from the power, or took the battery out when it was plugged in it would drop the hdd temp to 50c.

 

[ATTech]

Ambient Temperature:
Operating 41 - 131OF (5 to 55C) < It's currently at 55!

They're typicall conservative with their estimates, so I would say you have another 5-10F of leeway when it comes to the ACTUAL operating temperatures.