Many people don't realize this. I was studying the effects of temperature on hard disk. Many people seem to worry about cooling down their processors and graphics card but not hard disks.

Hard disks should be cooled and their ideal temperature should be around anywhere from 35C to 38C (at most it should be 40C). Now anything above that is dangerous. Hard disks max temperature are generally 50C. You don't want to go anywhere above 42C , its just simply asking for trouble.

Its very important to cool down your hard disk. Take a look at temperature

Oh yeah you may want to read this article , the author explains it very well



http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/12/h...-be-afraid.html

This post has been edited by prasys: May 5 2012, 09:54 PM

Take a look at whats the maximum temperature for WD black. 45C is dangerous , you are stressing the hard disk too much

Depends how the hard disks are placed , if they are on top of each other , probably thats the reason and that is common as well , my OS disk will be slightly cooler compared to my idle disk

That may not help , you may have to tweak with Hard Disk APM settings on how to slow it down. If its a data disk , probably you want to slow it down or tweak its settings. I forgot the name of the software

Took out my old LGA775 heatsink and placed on top of the hard disk and it did help to reduce the temperature by 1-2C . 1-2C means a lot for hard disk !

What software did you use to encrypt it ?

Sadly its gone , probably its partially corrupted. Its not a good idea for you to encrypt something while on battery source.

If you setup a password , its encrypting the data. Simple , now while its doing that , you decided to interrupt. It couldn't complete , now your drive can't be said encrypted nor fully decrypted. It has resulted in an unstable state

Not sure , you sure you have used BitLocker and not other things

The problem now is that even if we can recover the data probably its gibberish. However there are few recovery softwares you could try , you may able to recover data which are not encrypted yet. I am not sure of the chances because I have not attempted to recover files from an encrypted hard disk

Anyway the lesson is don't encrypt your hard disks , if you want to protect your files and stuff , consider encrypting the folder or just the files alone. Its way safer compared to doing this way

Gibberish in sense the file does not make sense , its lost its identity. Its encrypted. You can't understand. Try with that recovery software and wait , if the disk is large it will take time. Just leave it overnight and pray it recovers something.

Always remember , when you want to protect or use bitlocker. Do a bit of research what it does and do not attempt such tasks on battery power.

3TB internal of course. Its better to keep it safe in a PC , be sure to have proper ventilation for the hard disk. Keeping it cool is important


It has no impact. Hard disk speeds cant even reach SATA 1 yet. Probably if you connect to SATA 3 , you'll get burst speeds (aka if the data is found in buffer) , even that would be for few seconds.