Question Almost new Mechanical HDD heats up really fast

[it4u]

I have several older notebooks, of the C2D era (>10 yrs old), which, when I install an almost new mechanical HDD, the onboard sensor softwares (eg CrystalDiskInfo, HD Sentinel) indicates that the HDD shoots up to above 50C [122F] (I was not running any intensive softwares) very quickly, at times even above 60C [140F]

The same mechanical HDD, when installed in a relatively newer notebook, DOES NOT experience the same.

The older notebooks have all been cleaned internally and thermal paste applied.

The quick heating up occurs at the HDD, not the CPU nor GPU.

Seeking advice and suggestions

mainly, (1) what could be the deeper rooted underlying problems, resulting in the observed symptoms? (2) what can I do to alleviate the HDD overheating situation?

Thanks.

 

[Karadjgne]

Probably has something to do with the way the older notebook has its heatsink routed. Newer notebooks are using newer gen cpus which have far better heat ratios and power usage. The difference between a 7th gen and 8th gen cpu is crazy.

Could also be the hdd itself. The original might have been a 7mm, the new one an 8 or 9mm. Might not seem like much difference, but it's airspace between the heatsink and hdd surface. If the hdd is now touching the heatsink, it'll get direct absorbsion, basically being an extension of the heatsink vrs radiant heat.

The original might be laptop/notebook specific hdd, having insulated layer between the backplate and guts, the new hdd might be a standard hdd, no insulation.

That's just off the top of my head, but there's more than a few reasons, more than I can think of atm.

 

[it4u]

Thank you @ Karadjgne

(1) This almost new current mechanical HDD is a 7mm;
(2) The place where the HDD sits is NOT directly above the heat sink, but rather, about 3 - 4 cm away

With this quick temperature rise situation, it is almost impossible to use the notebook, except if in a very cold air-conditioned environment

 

[SkyNetRising]

Install SSD instead of HDD. It will heat up significantly less (if at all).

 

[AllanGH]

The older notebooks may not be spinning-down the HDD, whereas the new notebook probably is (power saving, thermal management, and all that).

If the new hard drive is a 7200 RPM drive--like the one I tried shoving in a netbook a while ago--then, yeah, it's going to get HOT. (Real bad idea.)

Best approach has already been mentioned: SSD.