The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    New DV2000t Hard Drive Temperature..

    Discussion in 'HP' started by nicedream, Aug 4, 2007.

  1. nicedream

    nicedream Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    65
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Just got my new DV2000t this week. Everything is great, except it seems that the hard drive is running too hot. Just running idle, it gets up to 49C. So under load I would assume it would get well past 50C. The problem with this is the underside of the laptop is really hot, which is uncomfortable when its on my lap (which is pretty much all the time).

    When I ordered I got a free upgrade to a 160GB drive (Hitachi), and I'm not sure if the 80 or 120 GB would have been cooler.

    What temp do other HP laptop owners run at? I would really prefer if I could get this thing down around 40C. Would a different hard drive capacity or brand help? I really don't want to get a cooler underneath it, that seems kind of hackey to me...not what I want for a brand new laptop.

    Any advice or recommendations?
     
    nicedream, Aug 4, 2007
    #1
  2. suland

    suland Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    8
    Messages:
    490
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Well, mostly you are noticing it dependable on where it's located in your laptop. Some HP models have HDD's installed to the left of touchpad and the HEAT off HDD is really annoying, especially when the LAPTOP is really THIN... I am afraid you can't do anything about it as HDD's always get that HOT.
     
    suland, Aug 4, 2007
    #2
  3. SideSwipe

    SideSwipe Notebook Virtuoso

    Reputations:
    756
    Messages:
    2,578
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    it's the same as mine really and yeah my primary drive runs real hot! Im in need of a notebook cooler but it's hard to get the one I want over here.
     
    SideSwipe, Aug 4, 2007
    #3