Are these temps okay?

OGSnow

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Hi. I'd like to know if my storage temps are okay for the bottom 2 cuz the pike was sudden.
It's been about an year since i clean out the PC and wonder if the gathered dust could be influencing on it.

The SSD is perfect and always steady at 30. And in the past, the same was for the other 2, but
it changed. The middle one is reaching the 40s (max 44C in really hot weather but usually 40-42 *HWMonitor*) the bottom one is getting there (usuals of 35-38).

I might be overthinking it cuz i had an overheating issue with a video card in the past and was hard to get rid of. So now ever since i see any unusual temps i get a little worried. A friend of mine said that 45-50C are okay and won't affect the storage's life span in itself but i want to get a second opinion thus i come here to Tom's Hardware.

Anyway, should i be worried about these temps? Or are they perfectly fine in the safe zone and i'm just being paranoid for no reason? Thanks in advance!

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As far as the pair of Seagate ST1000DM003 hard drives go, you're well within the normal operating temperatures specced for that drive, which is a range of 0-60 degrees Celsius. Here is the spec sheet if you'd like more info on it.

You can also scan the health of the drives using our free diagnostic software SeaTools.

Kenton82

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What are the specs of your system? And what are your ambient temps where the pc is located? If it has been a year since you last cleaned the case out, i would strongly recommend you do it now. Even if the PC does not get used very regularly, there is still a good chance that the heat sinks and fan vents are partially blocked. Your temps are not dangerous, but they could be improved.
Download HWmonitor and see what your other component temperatures are like: https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html

 

OGSnow

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I already have HWMonitor but i know not how to check the ambient temp but the place is closed off with no windows opened. I will clean out the PC when i find the time and hopefully it'll be enough.

Btw, if those temps aren't dangerous for hdds, what would be then, just in case?
 

Kenton82

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It does also depend of the activity on the HDD. These drives are mechanical, and if being worked hard, or continuously, then they will heat up, more so than an SSD which is Solid-State, so has no moving parts.
You can test your ambient temps using a thermometer. I wouldn't want to see the drive get any higher than 60C as this is the rated max for most good HDD's out there.
As i said, have a look at the activity on your HDD. IF it is in constant high demand, you may want to look at what is causing this, i.e programmes running in the background.