Speedfan and SMART temp sensors on WD250 Gig

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Just played around with a utility called Speedfan which apparently can
read the SMART temperature sensor on newer hard drives. Of my three
drives, a Maxtor 60, a WD200, and a WD250, only the WD250 appears to
have the sensor. It's reading 30 C with a motherboard case temp of
25C.

Does this sound ballpark ?

No special cooling except for air flow from front case holes directly
in front of drives. Three fans blowing out rear of case.
 
Just played around with a utility called Speedfan which apparently can
read the SMART temperature sensor on newer hard drives. Of my three
drives, a Maxtor 60, a WD200, and a WD250, only the WD250 appears to
have the sensor. It's reading 30 C with a motherboard case temp of
25C.

Does this sound ballpark ?

No special cooling except for air flow from front case holes directly
in front of drives. Three fans blowing out rear of case.
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Sounds fine.
 
Just played around with a utility called Speedfan which
apparently can read the SMART temperature sensor on
newer hard drives. Of my three drives, a Maxtor 60, a WD200,
and a WD250, only the WD250 appears to have the sensor.
Click to expand...

Sounds plausible.
It's reading 30 C with a motherboard case temp of 25C.
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Does this sound ballpark ?
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Yep. Tho what matters is what it gets to
with the hottest room temps in summer.
 
Sounds plausible.



Yep. Tho what matters is what it gets to
with the hottest room temps in summer.
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I figured out the "chart" tab and am running a temperature chart on my
WD250 while I run viruscan on it. It started out at 30 raised to 38
and then when into a choppy crazy looking square wave between 36 and
38C. Almost looks like there's some kind of cycling going on.

This is a great little program for testing cooling systems.
 
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