Blue color - Cold air direction
Red coloer - Hot air direction
Green area - After u close the back cover, there still have a gap to let cooling fan su ck the hot air in.
Orange area - Remove the plastic for cold air in.
The Blue Cardboard is show you after the back cover is closed, there is a gap to let hot air in.



Light blue area - Only left 5% hole for HDD surface to dissipation the heat.



ST1000LM024 Environmental Specifications.

(READ CAREFULLY HERE)

Ambient Temperature

When your HDD in (Operating) -------> The Ambient Temperature MUST be between 5°C~55°C (If your room temperature is 40°C, sure your HDD will rise up to 50°C above)

(A) (Drive temperature measured on position of figure 3-1 should be max 65C in range of 5C-55C, specified operation temperature.)
(A) If your laptop operating at 30°C room temperature, the HDD maximum temperature is 65°C.

How the HDD measured temperature? See below


This post has been edited by deepcool0922: Sep 12 2012, 01:38 AM

The guide is very details , nice one TS . This should solve the so called HDD heat problem

This post has been edited by skycrawler: Sep 10 2012, 09:18 PM

i cant get the idea..........can explain?
thank you

Let say u playing your Y580 in your room or your gf room with air-cond.

Room temperature is about 20 degree celcius. So your Y580 HDD max temperature should not be more than 65 degree celcius(when your Y580 is power on (HDD operating)).

Will you use your Y580 under room temperature 40 degree celcius? If you do so, i think you will crash faster than your HDD

but but but....how can we solve this?

Time for drilling a hole on back plate?

what to solve??

Your HDD temperature reach to 65 degree celcius?

i dont understand eventhough im a chinese...
And you didnt explain why you put the blue cardboard there..

From what you mention about the temperature of hdd..
What i can understand is that when operating the hdd,the ambient temperature/room temperature should be around 5-55 degree celcius.. and the max temperature of the hdd is 65C?

About the blue cardboard, after you close the back cover, the back cover doesn't block the air way (still have a gap), hot air from heatpipe and hdd will exhaust by the cooling fan.

If your HDD is operating, the ambient temperature better around 5-55 degree celcius, IF your room temperature is 50 degree celcius, i give you 1000 fans, you also can not cool it down, you just blow the hot air into the laptop.

Not matter your laptop in what environment temperature, the HDD max temperature is 65 degree celcius.

i think i slowly get your point, max temp 58'C =)

Not using at hot environment should be ok.

Yea,i understand bout the temperature part.
Anyway,isnt it good that hot air from heatpipe and hdd will be blown out by the fan?
By putting the blue cardboard there,it will block the airflow or will it enhance the airflow?

i think the card is trying to show you there is a gap.....correct me if i'm wrong, deepcool92

haha ya you are right. more detail at zol.com.cn.

SIFUU!!!

after so many post... what's this all about?

guide to improve airflow for y580?

ssd can tahan how hot ar?

For those over worry the HDD heat issue.

i use ssd... but still got my odd... the ssd will get bbq or not ar?

would not. Unless higher capacity (means more memory chips inside SSD), generated more heat.

Even i read through all the post and comment still cannot get how to solve but i manage to understand the purpose.
Anywhere nice and detail information shared. Keep up. and Thank you

This is not for to solve. Is for Not to worry.

This was to give a little space for the HDD to breathe?

yes. 1TB HDD to breathe.

thanks deepcool for the entry, anyways from the chinese website i think they changed a piece of plastic which blocked the cool air, im not sure which is he talking about? any comprehensive guide on how to change the position of the hdd to the dvd rom slot?heard it brings down the temp a lot

My hdd highest temp is 50C...quite close to 55C already...

Max is 65!

but the "optimal" range is 5-55..
still...50C is quite scary...

5-55 is ambient temperature. Means your room temperature. Environment temperature. NOT HDD temperature. READ CAREFULLY~

what if i just use ssd? does this still overheat my ssd as well?

i don't think ur SSD will overheat, SSD has higher heat tolerance

Anybody please translate the text in the pictures. I can't read Mandarin.
I'd really appreciate that! Thanks.

the only issue i have with my y580 is..
im running out of games to play ><
almost all high-demand latest games played already ==
any suggestions? xD

From deepcool0922 review, he concluded that HDD bay is not effective dissipate heat generated by HDD.
He swapped the HDD to a cooler ODD bay & caddy with better heat dissipation to improve HDD cooling. SSD is cooler & put it on HDD bay.

His results is SSD at 30C & HDD at 40C as below pic.
More details on his writeup in chines site, use google translate if necessary.
http://ideapad.zol.com.cn/59/160_582738.html

SSD do not have temperature sensor. the 30C just a ddummy.

black mesa source... definitely hvnt played