36 degrees for drives

[TheMidnightNarwhal]

Bad or good, probably because of my cables in the floor. But I heard 50 is when it gets dangerous?

[helping]

good. between 35~40c is ideal

[Guest]

WD say that 0-60 is a ok operating temperate for their Caviar Blue 1tb's so you are fine.

Source: http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/SpecSheet/ENG/2879-701277.pdf

[Ahnzh]

yup. if you get more than 45°Celsius and you're not a lucky owner of an air conditioner, think about adding an extra fan for cooling (for the summer). Check the temps on a hot summer day, if they still are below 50° you will be fine. Above 50° means reducing the lifetime of your HDD.

[TheMidnightNarwhal]

good. between 35~40c is ideal

 

WD say that 0-60 is a ok operating temperate for their Caviar Blue 1tb's so you are fine.

Source: http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/SpecSheet/ENG/2879-701277.pdf

 

yup. if you get more than 45°Celsius and you're not a lucky owner of an air conditioner, think about adding an extra fan for cooling. Check the temps on a hot summer day, if they still are below 50° you will be fine. Above 50° means reducing the lifetime of your HDD.

 

Ok thanks guys!

[alpenwasser]

Yeah that's fine.

For further reading, i recommend Google's drive failure study

from a few years ago, they also have a chapter on temperatures

in there: link (pdf)

[steffen_anywhere]

When your drive is under heavy use, it wil get hotter. In our WD MyBook Live NAS, the drives get really warm during indexing and long backup transfers copying several hundred gigabytes. They will exceed 50°C during that as the unit is only passively cooled. So really as they say below 60°C schould be just fine as most of the time they will be much cooler.

[Ahnzh]

what really kills HDDs is large changes in temperatures - at least from my experience... for private or business use i recommend running HDDs in the basement with good fan cooling. 

[alpenwasser]

what really kills HDDs is large changes in temperatures - at least from my experience... for private or business use i recommend running HDDs in the basement with good fan cooling.

Yes, I have read about that as well, significant and quick changes

in temperatures are allegedly not very healthy for HDDs. I haven't

really been able to find any concrete hard data on this though, but

I'll treat it as a reasonable guideline since that is generally true

for many mechanical and electrical thingies, so it doesn't sound

very unreasonable to me.

[Ahnzh]

Yes, I have read about that as well, significant and quick changes

in temperatures are allegedly not very healthy for HDDs. I haven't

really been able to find any concrete hard data on this though, but

I'll treat it as a reasonable guideline since that is generally true

for many mechanical and electrical thingies, so it doesn't sound

very unreasonable to me.

 

 

must be something about the bearings. Spaces in between that vary or w/e

 

I've rarely seen drives fail by anything else than bearings that were worn down