Hard Disk Temperature 53C

[cyberfox2004]

Recently I am experiencing some freeze after using few hours with my Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop with it's Hitachi HDD.

I have installed HDD Health software which it shows health condition 100% good Hard Disk temperature 53 Celsius and sometimes 57 Celsius.

Is that temperature going to cost me some money for replacement?

Edited May 16, 2009 by cyberfox2004

[MR_Candyman]

I would try to get more airflow over it, because that is a bit hot. For comparison the 2 in this comp are at 27 and 34

[Thirtythree]

  cyberfox2004 said:

Recently I am experiencing some freeze after using few hours with my Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop with it's Hitachi HDD.

I have installed HDD Health software which it shows health condition 100% good Hard Disk temperature 53 Celsius and sometimes 57 Celsius.

Is that temperature going to cost me some money for replacement?

Where are you seeing 53C? I'm seeing 40C there.

  MR_Candyman said:

I would try to get more airflow over it, because that is a bit hot. For comparison the 2 in this comp are at 27 and 34

Sort of impossible to get more airflow over a hard drive in a laptop. They are usually completely encased and the only thing getting air are the fins attached to heatpipes. :p

[MR_Candyman]

oh geez, I didn't realize it was a laptop *feeling dumb*

[Salty Wagyu]

I had a 2 year old WD Raptor go from its 42 degree average to 50-55. Didn't fail but I went out to replace it with a black caviar, temps stayed at 40 degrees after that. Point is, HDD temps can soar on its own even if cooling is fine, I just wasn't comfortable keeping the raptor running.

[ToneKnee]

It's a laptop hard drive mate, and most laptops don't have any sort of ventilation for hard drives, so this is normal.

[cyberfox2004]

thank you guys, yes even thought picture does not shows actual heat temp c I just put the picture with low heat temp c, because when hits above 59 0r sometime 57, it start make funny "grrrr" noise from board or HDD which I am not sure the sources or maybe it could be system bios noise.

The Laptops starts freezing frequently, keyboard and mouse freeze 100% and I am forced to switch it off. and does not boot, maybe after 4 or 5 hours later with few attempts it starts and shortly after use it freeze again .

what could be the possible hardware failure Ram, HDD. MD?

I have run Dell Diagnostic CD from boot up, and result shows green mark (passed) in every hardware test.

Can somebody tell me what I can do to make my computer stop freezing? Is it the RAM I am running xp with 1 GB Ram .

I am sure it is not the virus , because I managed to format it, even immediately after format on newly windows xp installed it keep freezes.

Edited May 18, 2009 by cyberfox2004

[Thirtythree]

The grinding noise might be your system fan.

Since that's a SATA hard drive and only 60GB have you thought about replacing it with a SSD drive (if you can afford it)?