Quote Originally Posted by Watchman
Say, what's the rough "safe" temperature for hard drives ? Mine seem to be going to over 55 degrees Celsius over time, and I'm starting to suspect that has something to do with the lock-ups. Looking into the box it would appear that the darn bundles of wires and cables could be blocking at least one of them from the air circulation.
51-56 for me. Around 53 and above, SpeedFan shows them with a burning flame, but they're pretty stable for me most of the time.
Most of the time, with regular but not very intensive disk activity, it's about 53-54. And yes, one of them is not well ventilated at all.