What are normal HD temps?

well... i have a WD harddisk in my pc (250Gb 16Mb chache),. and Everest say's the temp of it is 50~55 degrees C,.. wich seems pretty hot to me,.

My case didnt have the 2,5" slots bracket anymore, so the HD is mounted in a 5,25" bay, using the Zalman ZM-2HC1



using this cooler dropped my temps by about 10*C,.. so it was even higher before i usead it. But,.. are these temp's extremely high, or is it normal?

I currently see 31C on both 250gb ide drives with SpeedFan. I wouldn't go by Everest alone. Try out SpeedFan and see what it says on the opening screen. I've compared those readings to those of both Probe I + II provided by Asus to see the exact same on the A8N SLI here. You can download SpeedFan free at http://www.download.com/SpeedFan/300...-10067444.html

Ill check the temps using speedfan when im home again,.. and i couldnt find the HD temps when i used asusprobe II,.. but reading your post, my temps seem to be incredibly high

Someone else was also concerned when using Everest when the cpu temp was seen at 75C lately. That wasn't the actual temp reported by SpeedFan later. Often some of the monitoring programs have their own glitches giving off false readings or are not suitable for the board you have.

Your board is or should be equipped with a hardware monitor in the bios. That will also give you a better reading directly from the board's sensor's. If your thermal compound isn't as good as AS5 that could be a possible concern. If you run SpeedFan you will note the top reading or #1 is for the cpu with the #2 for the board.

my motherboard goes to 55*C tough, and my HD seems to be hot, My grafic's cards and CPU are really fine tough.

And that is with which one? SpeedFan? When first rebuilding the old case with the new board and cpu the idle to small load temp seen on the board was 46C-48C.

Upon buying the new case with the large front intake and rear exhaust plus two additional 120mm fans on the side cover the idle is now down as far as 31C-33C with the idle to small load temp there. The 939 model boards run warmer then the old Socket A models or even the 754s. You probably will need additional or larger fans to keep those down if SpeedFan is showing this.

I'm getting a new PSU, then i'll connect the 2 120mm Fans i already bought.

the Motherboard temp as measured with Asus probe btw, the HD temps with Everest. but my motherboard isnt know by everest, so i can only see the HDD and GPU temps there

Confirm the Probe II readings with SpeedFan if you get the chance. You will most likely find that they will read the same. SpeedFan will give you the temps from the hard drive as well as the cpu and board temps. The image at the link here will compare SpeedFan to the Asus Probe I readings. http://img134.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tempswq2.jpg

It may be because you mounted it in the 5.25" bay. Since usually the hard drive bay is right next to the front fan, which would blow cool air over it and cool it down.

im thinking of putting in 1 120mm fan right unter the HD blowing air up, and cutting some holes in the bottom of the bay,.. i hope that will work,..

but you people do agree the temp is pterry high?