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Old January 21st 14, 01:00 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
BillW50
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Default Putting a WD2500JB IDE on my XP PC

On 1/20/2014 7:22 PM, Paul wrote:
Modern drives, have S.M.A.R.T . And the drive has a thermistor
located somewhere in the unit, to measure the drive temperature.
You no longer have to "feel" the drive to detect overheating,
as you can read out the drive temperature via SMART. If you're
reading 60C, that would spell serious trouble. My drives
right now are at 31C (below body temperature).


Did you ever see that Google study they did about hard drives? They
found higher drive temperature drives tend to be more reliable than
cooler running drives. This is the opposite belief of most experts. And
do you have a lot of experience with portable computers like laptops and
tablets?

This tablet for example, the drive isn't doing much so far and it is
running at 116°F (47°C) already. That is a bit lower than what my
portable machines run at. As running at 124°F (51°C) is usually more the
norm. And I often have temps running like 135°F (57°C) during defrag or
cloning the drive. And I have dozens of these devices and they all run
at these temperatures. Nor am I suffering any problems with any hard
drive failures either.

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Bill
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