my secondary hdd is hotter then primary hdd

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vampelle

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i have two hard drive installed in my hp 8300 sff.
one is 40g seagate hdd for main c drive
and second is 250gb wd green hdd.

Sure 250gb wd green was main c and non stop download for torrents n rest for D, and when the PC dead, i was able to transfer to another backup hard drive without any issue using another pc.
Didn used it for 2 years but kept it in the static cover that it came in, so no dust got in.

and now when i got a pc for it, when i installed the hard drive it had ticking, and clicking and didnt recognized in bios or windows. after many try it started to show in windows sometimes, but later when i decide to check in device management, it had another name and after few click and tick , the name changed and i got it working. I first transfer the important files again and had no issue. but ticking and clicking was back when i restarted it, and it vanish from bios, and windows but after a while it came back.



i tested in cmd through chkdsk E: /f /r , hdtune , speed fan seems all fine expect the airflow temp.
will upload them if u can guide me where.

i just transferred all the files again to external file without any issue and the speed was normall as well in 10-25mb.
going to format soon though.

the Temp on my seagate 40gb which is main c drive and i use it for words, streaming tv shows online, and other stuff and hdd temp dont go over 38-41
but the wd 250gb green one is non stop at 41-43 temp. and for over an hour im not even using it and still it is in this range nonstop. and i have kept it outside upside down so that the fan wind can come on it directly.

how to get it down?

As i would like to use it for main C in this pc and keep 40gb as spare one.
 


it was finally came down too 38-45 but for some strange reason, my 100% health drop to 15% and now its have bad sector...
i tried to recover the bad sector using the hdd sentinel and it got into issues.
🙁
i have unplug it will try to find answer first before try to fix the bad sector.
strangely through WD lifeguard, it have passed the S.M.A.R.T and in quick scan it have passed too......
in hdd sentinel and speed fan it showed the reallocated sectors count when to 190 and some error.
so for current pending sector count and off line uncorrectable sector count i think....
as i have unplug not sure.... oh well luckly i have back up what i needed, was just using it again. 🙁
so sad.