Which Brand of Hard Drives Run the Coolest?

My hard drive was running really hot and reaching critical temps while in the middle of a simple virus scan. As a result, HP decided to send me a replacement drive. However, I've now been told by others on this board that my overheating problem might be a design issue--not a drive issue. Given the fact that technical support was so quick to fix the situation, I'm inclined to believe that they know this is a problem.

My replacement drive hasn't shipped so it might not be too late to ask for a drive by a different brand. I've heard WD drives run cooler than others. Can anyone verify? This might me the only thing that will alleviate my problem. Thanks in advance.

My PC:
dv2815nr
14.1in
AMD 2.0GHz
3g
250g HDD (Samsung HM250JI)

 

It is not just brands, but versions within the brands.

Tom's Hardware has two power charts - idle power and maximum power, which give a fair indication of power consumption.

More power consumed = more heat produced.

Personally I have found that Fujitsu and Samsung tend to have below average power consumption (although the 500GB Samsung is an exception). Also 7200rpm tends to need more power than 5400rpm and the latest generations of HDDs tend to use less power than the previous ones.

John

 

That would mean that my samsung 5400rpm 250g drive should be one of the cooler running drives. Man, I really do hope that it's my drive that's faulty and not the design.

 

The Tom's Hardware charts suggest that the Hitachi Travelstar 5k250 might be the one to try to get.

HDD temperature in notebooks does depend considerably on chassis design. Possibly inadequate cooling or too close to the CPU / GPU or some other heat-emitting component.

John