I'm now using a WD 160GB hdd and its temperature can reach up to 70°C. Is it normal or too hot? What is the maximum safe temperature for hdd?

any hdd expert can help me? 

So what i gonna to do? I have 2 hdd in my computer, one is around 34c and another one around 65c, so i think my cooling system is ok. I want to know wat causes the hdd become so hot.

It could be a faulty temperature sensor. The WD2500KS (250GB capacity) is known to report it incorrectly by around 19°C higher, but I am not sure about the 160GB series. You could try touching your HDD gently to test its real temperature. I think anything above 60°C would be unbearably hot to the slightest touch. If it is just tolerably warmer to the touch, it may be below 50°C or you are quite used to handling hot stuff.

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Added on February 9, 2012, 6:15 pmI just thought of a less painful method to test.

Put your computer on standby/sleep. Let your HDDs cool down to room temperature (either let it sleep for a few hours or test with your hand). Wake up your machine and immediately examine the temperature report. If it is immediately ~20°C higher, then you know that the temperature report is faulty.

My WD3200BEVT Scorpio Blue laptop HDD is also running at 50c constantly which I'm quite worried. In fact it has been averaging 50c-55c and sometimes as high as 59c for over a year...

I understand that normal temperature for the HDD should be around 30 to 40 but then there's really nothing much I can do, even after I cleaned the dust the temperature doesn't seem to be affected much, wonder what's the problem with it, anyone has a similar experience?

Laptop Lenovo G450 if it matters...

Guys, 3 TB HDD can be installed on p55 mobo? My mobo is  gigabyte p55a-ud4p.
This hdd is used for data only, not OS. I am planning to buy soon.

Not true.
You'll need a motherboard with a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) BIOS to support 2TB and above.
I'm not sure whether it can support or not.
I guess Intel Storage Controller drivers does play a part here.

Guys, 3 TB HDD can be installed on p55 mobo? My mobo is  gigabyte p55a-ud4p.
This hdd is used for data only, not OS. I am planning to buy soon.

putting them in a 24/7 dl media server.

Is Western Digital VelociRaptor (the latest one) 1TB HDD is okay for normal use?

Prices of Hard Drives to Return to Pre-Flood Levels Only in 2014 - Analysts

  Why you suggest me to get this combination?

Currently which brand of hard drive is better, performance and reliability wise. Seagate/Hitachi/ WD? Reading around i'm impress with seagate 2tb performance but then i notice they only provide 1 year warranty. Any advice?

http://www.behardware.com/articles/843-6/c...ns-rates-5.html

after reading this i feel scared to get my new HDD adi T_T
Seem like larger capacity hdd have higher failure rate

Quoted:
The M-DISC utilizes chemically stable and heat-resistant materials that are not used in any other DVD or optical disc! These materials cannot be overwritten, erased, or corrupted by natural processes. Data is stored on the M-DISC by physically altering the data layer and creating permanent voids or holes.  This new method of burning data is specifically designed to make your data endure the next 1000 years. <<     

Oh my! Nowadays HDD are not trustworthy as a matter of fact when its gonna fail you sooner or later. I think when SSD was introduced, HDD are going damn cheap and cheaper until its robustness or Quality Control (QC) acts like nobody business. I am not saiding that i will give up HDD but i am sad that their inspection are getting worse and worse if the price of HDD is getting dirt cheap nowadays. So, by the time HDD is around a few bucks imagine the reliability of it. Sign!

That's is why i am complaining that things will not last longer if you are not paiding what you wanted. But as you'd mentioned SDD with 1TB industrial class costs 2k. I just want to know how long can it last or are we paiding that amount of sum that can use it reliably?

At first, I used to think SSD has no moving part, it should be significant reliable than HDD, and this is many people perception as well, I reckon

But to my disappointment, after reading many complaint about SSD, and search through, SSD also subjected to failure as well despite no moving parts in it.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-re...ate,2923-3.html

SSD failure % can be on par with HDD as well.

Just HDD being mass use around, that's why we see many complaint about dead HDD.
For eg. There are 500 million of HDD in the market, a 1% failure means we see 5 million dead HDD, and complaints around.
While there may be only 1 million of SSD, even at failure rate of 2%, we only see 20k dead SSD.

5 million dead HDD vs 20k SSD, the figure look huge difference, but it doesn't say SSD is more reliable or not.

Has anybody had experience using the Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid HDD? Specifically the 750GB variant?

Thanks for the review.  I have a laptop/desktop replacement so I think this would be a good upgrade for me.

I just read this: http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/seagate...drives-2013034/

It seems Seagate will build over the Momentus XT line.  So I think we should expect better SSHDs from Seagate in 2014 and beyond.

anyone tried to build your own SSD here?

guys, whats d latest price for seagate st3000dm001 ? need to get a pair for raid1 for my data storage...