Is my Hard drive Ok?

antishill

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Is that your only source of temperature information? Is there proper airflow in your case? Preferably you would want the temperature to be 15C lower than what it is reporting. FWIW, here is Bakblaze's data on drive temps:
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-temperature-does-it-matter/
 

LeadGaming212

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Would it be that hot because i have basically everything installed on that drive? just to add i did have a game open at the time also.
The room that i have my pc isnt the coolest room in my house its a very small room, Also i did wonder why it was that hot because i do have 2 fans for intake on my pc and one of them is blowing air to my hdd.
 

antishill

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One of the tools I got is this cheap IR thermometer:
https://www.amazon.com/ANGGO-Non-contact-Temperature-Thermometer-Precisely/dp/B01FYVEJMY/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1517690486&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=anggo+ir+infrared+digital+temperature+gun&psc=1

It is a good way to see where are the hotspots on your PC. Harddrives do NOT run hotter because it has more installed on the drive. Since disk rotation speed is constant, harddrives will run hotter when it has more workload, as in read and write accesses requiring more drive head motion.

BTW have you tried running your PC with the case open (side panel off) just to see if there is temperature change?
 

LeadGaming212

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I have tried it like that (with the side panel off) but I read somewhere else that if a hard drive is at one temperature all the time then it is probably just normal and won't affect the usability of the drive and won't affect speeds.
But what do i know, or i wouldn't be asking on here about this, but right now as im writing this my drive is still at 48c even while playing games (although you said that shouldn't affect the temp as it is working normally and no harder than usual) I have tried with my other drive that is basically dead now and that was fine at about 25-30c and that drive is about 9 years old now (i dont know if that changes anything) sorry im getting off-topic i guess here :/
But overall if its true that temperature dosent affect anything other than it simply being hot to touch although you wouldnt touch it anyway. then i guess its completely fine and i shouldn't be worried one bit.

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