WD 10K RPM HDD temps

I have a WD 10K RPM harddrive connected with eSata in an external enclosure. I know these run a little hotter than the slower drives, but how much hotter? The average temp with no use is 114° F (using HDD Thermometer). This seems pretty hot.
Should I consider a different enclosure. I'm using this one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817145167

 

I'd defently invest in an enclosure with internal fan to help cool down this monistor. Disconnect it when not in use too.

 

I agree with Zolo. 114 F would mean around 46 C, and that is a little bit high for some of the desktop drives. It makes it alot more prone to failure, and it is a performance hard disk, which adds just that bit more risk. I would consider a different enclosure, one that cools the hard disk, and keeps it around the 30 C at the very most.

 

I use that exact same enclosure, but for a regular 250 GB 7200 RPM Samsung. It is all right. If you are using it for a Raptor though, you should find one that has a built in fan as everyone else has said. However, I do not know if an eSATA external enclosure with a fan exists, and if so, one that is rather quiet too.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817145660

I have used this before, and the fan in it is very quiet. However it is regular SATA and not eSATA. I am sure NewEgg has some adapters to get around that obstacle though.

If you continue to use the Raptor in that hard drive, I would think that might damage it due to the high temperatures. Why exactly are you running a Raptor externally anyway?

 

Thanks for the help. I will consider another enclosure. I passed on the one in your link due to the fan noise. I wonder if it would help much?

I have a gigabit network and I use this drive to give me the fastest performance sharing files. It's used as a temporary back-up and for processing images and graphics which tend to be large files to work on and share across a network. I don't store any files locally.

It doesn't have to be eSata or even Sata. I have a controller running on PCI (not express) to host the drive and the performance of the eSata was actually slower than usb 2.0 with this config.

By running a 10k rpm drive, my network speeds went from 18 MBps (usb 2.0 7200 IDE) to 25-27 MBps using usb 2.0. The eSata averaged around 21-22 MBps. This is a significant increase for the way I use my network.

BTW- I'm not so sure it's all that bad, The 7200's in the case run at 100 and my 5400 laptop runs at 111.

 

You should be getting significantly better than this from a GBe network - even from the 7200RPM drive over USB 2.0. Are you transferring lots of small files or large ones? Also, check the CPU usage you have during your transfers - is it very high?

One key item you should enable would be Jumbo Frames on your GBe network, if it hasn't been already (and your switches and cards all support it); hopefully, you'd see an increase of around 50% in your throughput.

 

My temp stays around 100-102F for my 10kRPM

 

What exactly would be significantly faster? Around 200 Mbps doesn't seem that bad? I transfer small and large files (5MB-1GB). I'll check my CPU usage. I think the bottleneck would be the drives.

I have not messed arounnd with Jumbo Frames. I'll research it. I do know all my switches and cards support it.

 

Is this external in an enclosure? Fan?