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Putting a WD2500JB IDE on my XP PC
BillW50 wrote:
On 1/21/2014 3:46 PM, Paul wrote: BillW50 wrote: 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. But the Google study is invalid. No humidity measurements. http://i43.tinypic.com/156eash.gif Hmm... so you believe that humidity affects the reliability of hard drives? I haven't actually pondered this theory before. So how do you believe that humidity effects hard drive reliability? Hard drives have a breather hole, which equalizes atmospheric pressure on either side of the HDA. The drive is constantly "breathing" in and out. I have no idea how the materials inside the drive could be affected. Neither do I have a plain English explanation anywhere, as to what that graph is meant to imply. The Google study is done, without much in the way of control or measurement of humidity. Making the study amusing, but useless. Paul |
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