Hard Drive running at 50C, is this dangerous?

Hey all, I just noticed in my eMachines, the C:\ drive is running at 50C and D:\ is at 48C, is this safe? I rarely get a drive above 38C There are no case fans for the front of the case, what would you recommend doing for me to cool the hard drives?

"Ouch! I burnt my hand!" should be the expression there! Front fans are generally one thing seen in most all newer case while the old styles lacked in that area for older PII and Socket A systems. With three hard drives in the gaming case I barely break the 30C mark after leaving the system running 24/7.

Hard drive coolers by 3rd party brands have been available at various online vendors for years now. You may even find them by simply strolling into a pc repair shop that carries accessories there. But here's an old 2006 blog that makes the point about drive temps as seen at http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000748.html

Yes 50C is too hot, it will shorten the life span as well. 40C is the recommended max temperature, I would definitely get case fans, especially with the rig you have.

Its not on my main rig, its on my emachines rig, what would you suggest for it to cool down since a front fan is not an option and the only bays I have for the hard drive is 2x 3.5"?

This may sound like a cop-out, but be creative! I have one fan that is secure, but not physically mounted - it's leaning at an angle and held in place by the power wire and a zip-tie. Is there anyway you can do a setup like that? Bear in mind however that HDDs are like CPUs in they they have varying max-temp limits, with older ones typically being a bit higher. Still, 50*C is rather warm!

In reference to HDs being like cpu then you would need something like a hard drive cooler. For a look at a long of coolers available one vendor sees to that at http://www.frozencpu.com/cat/l3/g40/...Vumg&mv_pc=640

There are also drive bay coolers made to fit various systems. http://www.calpc.com/catalog/baycoolers.html

Mine is and has always run at 57 degrees C



Is this bad? I have 3 fans (front, rear and graphics card)



IBM ThinkCentre A50

2002 XP Pro

Pentium Intel(R) 4

2.8GHz 512MB RAM

I have got the emachines in a new case, it is running a lot cooler now.

That was the best move there. Hopefully you didn't have too much trouble transferring since some items like supplies on older prebuilt systems use different ways of mounting like different bolt patterns for supplies like seen with the older Dell models.

I ran into the same problem when going to upgrade an old Socet A case here with everything seeing higher temp on the 939 board until moving everything out into a new case with a large fan right on the front.

One thing to know about hard drives however is that they will take more heat then a more sensitive to temp item like a cpu. Just look over any old case whether Intel, AMD, or some other to see hardly any vents let alone fans in the front or side except as seen on older gaming systems.

They tried to make it hard to get out, but a little force gets it out.