[plug] Hard Disk Temp.

[Andrew Simmonds]

Yep, screwed righ in to chassis

I've had the HD for around 9 months.
Its never had any errors or bad sectors etc (touch wood).


On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 12:20, Garry wrote:
> If that is when it properly screwed in to a chassis, it is hot!
> Be worth checking, high temps mean short life.
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> Garry
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> On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 02:55, Andrew Simmonds wrote:
> > I was quite amazed the other day when I touched my seagate 7200 rpm hard
> > drive and it actually burnt me. I'm estimating it to be around 70-80
> > degrees celcius. (Its also under quite a heavy load sometimes)
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> > What temp should hard disks be usually operating at?
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