WD black 2TB loud and hot

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BigBadBeef

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Is the rumor that WD black edition hard drives are a bit loud when working true? Because mine is.

It also seems to be running a bit hot under load. Right now I am copying 180 gigs of data from it to my portable drive and its running at 53°C. However I seem to be getting 2 hard drive readings from speed fan, can the program read temps from portables? The other sensor is showing it to be 40°C.

My case is Antec VSK4000, the hard drive is situated about 10cm above the bottom of the case, can't really put it any higher because my graphics card is so powerful that a small part of it is sticking into the hard drive tray.:D

So uh, I believe the drive's normal operating temperatures can run up to 60°C but I'm worried about how hot it could get in the summer.

Anyone got any comments to this?
 
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They can be loud.
They can run out under a large load.

This is normal! :)

You could add an extra fan to cool down the drive a little bit if you are worried.
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I just touched my seagate drive and I think that one (the recipient of the files) is the hot turkey. Considering the sound, all I'm hearing is periodic crackles from the black, nothing even close to intensive action.

Its more logical that way, after all, the black can't even be running close to capacity since the fie transfer rate is not exceeding 40MB/s. The question is whether speedfan can detect temps from portable drives...

That Seagate portable 1TB has been causing me problems for quite a while now, it kept corrupting my ISO images (movies and documents worked okay), I just reformated it to exFAT, hoping to resolve that issue.
 
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Oh... nice! The answer is yes, speedfan can read portable drive temps.

Wait... so seagate is the cooker... that rat bastard!:kaola: It better not corrupt a single ISO again or I got a sharp axe in my basement with its name on it.

Are these temps for portables normal? Its a normal 1TB portable USB HDD, not like an SSD or anything like it, however temperature wise, it feels the same by touch under load like a flash stick or my 3G modem.
 
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The temperatures shouldn't be an issue no. Portal drives always run hotter than internal drives unless the external drive has a fan built into the case where in same cases it can actually run cooler. If you are losing data on the external hard drive I would recommend running a disk check on the drive or possibly replacing it to prevent file lose. It may still be under warranty.
 
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No, not anymore, not for a while. Its not loosing any data, everything runs normally on the drive, only when I use the Disk images I got stored then the mounting software keeps reporting errors. Copying the file to the computer doesn't help.

Oh, and, the problem is the same with large zip files.
 
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I would definitely run a disk check on the drive. ISO files are large. So are large zip files. The larger the file is the higher chance of corruption. If you have a bad drive those odds increase drastically.
 
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