50C HDD doing basic tasks

Ok So as you know I have the dv2000t with the 7200RPM HDD Hitachi Travelsar. Just surfing the net and listening to music my HDD is reading 50C which seems pretty high. When I have my cooler on which is the spire pacific breeze its usually around 40-42 which is fine but 48C on a flat table surface is this normal

 

Yep ,I think it is normal
my E1505 get to 50c in 20 minutes with just doing normal task

 

HDD temperature is influenced by the computer design and ambient temperature. As an example, I used to have an Asus W3A (same as W3J except Intel GPU). The HDD was under the right palm rest and used to regularly run at well over 50C (I think it got up to 60C on one occasion). I now have a Samsung X60 which also has the HDD under the right palm rest and the temperature is usually around 40C. In both cases the HDD is a Seagate Momentus 5400.2. I can't explain why so much difference between the two computers, particularly since the W3A had some air vents around the HDD. Either the heat has to be conducted away by cooling air, or comes up through the palm rest or is radiated downward onto the table top.

Whatever the manufacturers claim in their advertising, a 7200rpm HDD will use a little more energy (and therefore create a little more heat) than a 5400rpm model of the same generation.

John

 

50 degrees Celsius doesn't seem too high for a hard drive.

 

Mines is usually at 50 and after mt laptop has been on for 3-4 hours its at 55. Now that is hot for a 4200 rpm HD IMO so you have nothing to worry about.

 

That is 100% correct.

I would classify 50*C as hot. I've had one or two laptops in the past with extremely cool-running drives (due to better placement of the drive in the notebook), around 35-39*C. My current laptop has a terrible hard drive placement, right in the front where it is about 0.75" thin. Directly above it is the PCMCIA slot, currently in which resides a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS. My drive now idles around 52-53*. The maximum rated temperature for the 2.5" drives is 55*C.
I wouldn't be too worried about 50*C. Cooling pads help.

 

i have a w3j and i only get up to 46C..47 at full load

 

does it have the 7200rpm hdd? when i use my cooler it is like 40-42 so the cooler helps alot i guess

 

coolers make about a 3deg difference usually..but most of the heat is from he x1600

 

The Spire Pacific Breeze makes about a 8-10 degree difference in my HDD temperatures with the cooler its around 40-41 with normal tasks and without 48-50 the CPU is about the same if not a little cooler, the cooler helps my laptop alot with the hdd temp as the way the laptop is designed. depends which coolers you use though. the spire is one of the more powerful ones but also noisy