Harddrive overheating

After playing GTA 4 a couple hour my hard-drive, which is rated 55C, climb up to 67C. Is there something wrong with my computer or hard-drive or do other m860tu owner with a 320go@5400 have the same problem.

Any advice ??

 

the m860tu is known to create high HDD temps as a result of the case design. even so, 67°C is waaaay too hot, so hot in fact it will damage your drive over time. my advice would be to invest in an external cooler, either the Cryo LX from NZXT or the Zalman NC2000.

 

also read this:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=292702

 

Seems to me you didn't update the Intel Matrix Storage from the 8.2.

 

Well thank you for your reply

But first of all I can't really bring myself to use a cooler on a notebook anyway I do not have enough room for it + knowing there is no air vent near the hard-drive it will probably not lower much more than 5C which is still 7C too much

Then I am not enough skilled to do a hole into my laptop

And finally I have installed the Intel Matrix storage 8.5 but all it did was lowering my iddle temp but it had no impact on my load temp
Although when I installed it my iddle temp was about 50 and now its 55, I don't know why.

I will try shutting down anti-virus and firewall while I play to see if it makes a difference but what I would like to know it's : is there some m860tu owner with a 320go@5400 that never go over 55 ??because in this case I might try to make eurocom replace it again

 

I normally idle at around 50-52 in a warm room (22 degres) while its around 49 in a cooler room (19 degres). During gaming, it gets around 54-55. While deffraging, it gets up to 56. Max I reached was 62 during a 3hrs movie (played from the HDD) in silent mode.

 

Thanks but I think I found half the problem while playing GTA 4 I was cold so I set the heater at 75F now that room temperature came back to under 65F my idle temp is about 45C

I also said that recently my temp were up and realized that it is because I can't control my school room temp and its excessively hot, probably over 75F

Which also probably mean that the hard-drive has some airflow somehow

 

There are holes right around the hard drive. My notebook cooler lowers temps by 10-12 degrees. And room? Do you have vertical room issues or something? The Zalman coolers fit right under (or in the 1000s case, smaller) than the notebook's footprint.

 

My HDD temps have never reached higher than 52c. I use Everest to log the temps. I have never closed it sinds I installed it!

The HDD that I have is a Hitachi 320GB@5400RPM. I also have the black tape under the vent.

 

Notwithstanding that you've solved the immediate problem of the high heat, you should probably run a hdd diagnostic to see if the hdd is still within nominal specs or not.

 

Well my room is about the size of a prison cell and my laptop is on a rack that is slightly less large than my notebook and plugged to a external screen so that it does not take all of my desktop so I can't really use a notebook cooler

And what software should I use to diagnose my hard-drive, I've tried HD Tune but under Health tab there is nothing not even power on time and health status, I'll try error scan later

 

you only need to panic when your HD touches 65c then the best thing to do is turn it off before damage is caused. most temperature software tools are set to a default of 55c so you can change it to a higher setting if you use one. i have mine on 62c and the only time mine hits that is when its defraging. during games its round about 51c all the time no matter how long i play for.
try this free software and post the results on here so we can advice you further HD Tune

ps. can you send some of the hot weather over to the uk, we need it