Question: is this a healthy hard disk according to HDTune?

OK - below is second screenshot after disabling a few programs that were running ( bit torrent/ie/word)



How does this one look?

 

Too many background processes/services accessing the HDD. Try terminating some user processes in taskmgr.

 

Yeah i'll try that.

 

Also run it while it's not running hot, and turn off anything that access the internet or wireless. So, short answer is: no, it would look very unhealthy if the spikes were not accounted for by other programs accessing the hard drive.

 

Updated...

 

almost as good as mine

 

Looks pretty healthy to me; I think the fewer spikes the better, but a handful is usually ok (although that's a lot at the beginning). Temp looks fine too, but warmish, which would account for some of the spikes by the way. (I ran an HDTune test at my one and only 70C HD measurement and it was bizarre - not curved at all, just a horizontal very jagged line at the very top of the graph. Eek). I'd run and post a run from my current (more optimized) disk now, but I'm busy downloading Realtek audio drivers* from taiwan at 4K/s -.-

*Manufacturer of the onboard sound released drivers on 9/12, which is way more recent than the supplied ones (which crackle sometimes).

 

Yes, the new drivers do not crackle so much (if at all...). But I suspect that the crackle has to do with high latency that you get sometimes. I get latency peaks that normally happen when there is an audio "crackling".

The Realtek, the Intel Wlan and the Intel Matrix Storage are a must of drivers to update.

To the OP, that looks great (the 2nd one). And the temps are not that bad.
My 250GB 7200rpm is much slower than those 320GB ones!

 

Temps are a bit too high. Processes don't really push drive temps that high. Probably its a minor flaw in the notebook's design, since I see two M860TUs with high HDD temps.

Leave your laptop in safe-mode for an hour, and monitor the HDD temps, and if they are low, then the high temps are related to software/backgound processes and services. (Probably a stealth defrag/indexing or virus-scan)

 

the above graph was the first one i ever done and the temp was set at 55c so thats why i got the critical warning.
the one below was just done now and ive been brousing for the last 3 hours and its stayed at 50-51c all the time.
im very happy with them temps. the only time to start worrying is if it goes above 65c

DRTH_STi, you could also try running the error scan to check for bad sectors

 

Above 65*C That drive has a max operating temp of 60*C.

(You guys should consider switching to SSDs)

 

its been quoated on here many time that the safe temp is below 65c (im too tired to go searching now,maybe tomorrow)

 

What is wrong with everyones HD temps?? Is it like that with all 320GB 7200RPM HDs or is this an isolated issue with the Clevo M860TU?

 

The HDD on the Clevo M860TU does run on the hot side.
But no reason to panic about... I hope!

Mine is always around 45-55. So I guess that's quite OK. (Although I have an WD 250GB 7200rpm).
Hopefully Clevo will come up with a strategy to reduce the temperatures of the HDD on the M860TU. Which, odly enough, is the only temperature that gives rise to any concearn on this laptop. Who would say!?

 

M860TU issue, but nothing too big to worry about. Many 320GB 7200RPM (dependent on brand) never peak over 40C...

 

More than that. That's a normal HD temp for this notebook, after a few hours/under load, probably without a cooler.

Jeez guys, half this forum is filled with HDD heat M860TU threads