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    Added second hard drive to 6860fx, now it runs hot!

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by Nathand, Jan 25, 2010.

  1. Nathand

    Nathand Notebook Consultant

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    I've been noticing that the bottom of my laptop seems a lot hotter after adding a scorpio blue 500GB hard drive. Are these temps normal?

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    Nathand, Jan 25, 2010
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    Yes it does look hot.
     
    Maverick79, Jan 25, 2010
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    Nah depending on what you were doing and how high your cpu was clocked at the time those temps aren't to bad.
     
    ignite, Jan 26, 2010
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    Yeah, that's hot, I've got 2 Scorpio Blue's running in Raid 0 and its only 38C
     
    llynx, Jan 26, 2010
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    That's the reason I got rid of my second hdd after only a few months. SSD is the way to go.
     
    WarlordOne, Jan 26, 2010
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    My Seagate 7200rpm got that toasty too. I'd leave the outer cover off and use a cooler. Wish they'd have put air vents in those HD covers and more in the external cover :(

    Edit - after switching to a Vertex 60gb SSD, that runs at 27c :) I put the hot drive in an external case instead.
     
    wootage, Jan 26, 2010
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    Nah, my Hitachi is about that temp too (1-2 degrees less) but I only have one hard drive in the computer.
     
    chillerman625, Jan 27, 2010
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    my hard drive gets about that hot also. i never thought it was too hot.
     
    xxERIKxx, Jan 27, 2010
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