What IS reasonable disk drive temperature?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 13.06.2005 schrieb Jim Cornette um 3:43:

> This program should be sufficient for the purpose. Is 46 Degrees C hot 
> for a light duty installation? The drives in the environment that they 
> are used are constanlty performing read/write operations and are powered 
> on 24/7

> Jim
> 
> Installed: hddtemp.i386 0:0.3-0.4.beta13
> Complete!
> 
> hddtemp /dev/hda
> /dev/hda: IC25N040ATCS04-0: 46°C

46°C is too much in my opinion. It is not that bad that you very quickly
will have problems but the temperature will massively lower the drive's
lifetime. I suggest you do a better cooling. Place a 80mm fan in front
of the harddrive(s). That helps a lot. 30°C - 35°C are values which mean
a good condition.

Alexander


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