Music causes HDD overheat!?

I'm really getting sick of the hdd in my NP8662 getting flaming hot.
I'm scared to listen to music because my hdd just hit 63C while listening.

I know there are answers elsewhere, but it would really help to have them all in one spot.

What can I do to bring these temperatures down.

I'm using Windows 7.
I'm pretty sure I disabled windows search.
I've installed Intel Matrix Storage Manager.
I have my laptop propped on a stand at like a 50degree angle (no cooler yet though)

There has to be SOMETHING to help this!?

I should be able to listen to music whenever the hell I want. This is ridiculous!

I've had the music off solely for the period of time it took to type this post and my hdd dropped 2 degrees...

 

Well, I guess your ambient temperature is high?
Really if your ambiant temperature is high, the only thing besides not having a WD hdd that would lower temp, is getting a cooler. You shouldn't be scared of letting the hdd in the 60s. Just back up everything and wait till it blows You'll get a new one. Or ask wherever you got it from if they can ship you a new one right now.

There are some mods to lower temps, but not everyone likes doing that kind of modification to the chassis. There are a couple of mods around, you can check (Last one I remember is mikjoA's : http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=411143).

 

According to the hard drive failure study in the link below, temperature was only correlated with failure of hdd`s 3 year and older.

Could you try this hdd temprature sensor test , when your computer has been off for a few hours , start it up and check the hdd temp straight away , it should be very close to your room temprature as the hdd has not yet had time to heat up, if the temp reading is a lot hotter than the room temp it is likely the hdd has a faulty sensor.

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Flabs.google.com%2Fpapers%2Fdisk_failures.pdf&ei=wpGRSrX7EcGZjAf6s-HkDQ&rct=j&q=hard+drive+failure+study&usg=AFQjCNGQnQZT4n9wJDyYMmOnmVqfnx1udw

 

Well.....the NP8662 has had well known HDD temp problems for a while now. If you've done all of the tips found in the Sager forums for reducing temps, I'm afraid there is really nothing much you can do short of reducing your ambient temps

 

Have you tried taking off your backplate? If you have a notebook cooler as i do, it'll cool it about 10 degrees. At least.

Be carefull though :O

 

Next time dont buy a laptop with a failed cooling design....what do you expect from Acer?

 

NP8662 is Sager not Acer