I usually buy the WD My Book externals which uses green or Hitachi. And they are usually quite cool.
Anyway, I decided to buy the WD premium raid 8tb which uses two WD red hdds.
The problem is the enclosure doesn’t have a fan, but it has vents on the top and back.
Anyway, after an hour of use, I touched the top of the enclosue and its quite hot, I’d say around 47-50 degrees.
At the same, the heat stays constant even if I use it for longer.
My question is, since it doesn’t have an internal fan and it operates quite hot, how will it effect my two wd red hdds in terms of realibity?
And my 2nd question is, is the deisgn flaw or is this meant to be that hot?
Joe_S
March 19, 2015, 4:45am
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I’d install something that would show the actual drive temp instead of guessing. Speccy http://www.piriform.com/speccy is a handy little utility that shows temps for drives, video cards, motherboards and a lot of other handy info you might want.
Joe
Thank you for the recommendation, the program is useful.
But it still didn’t answer my question, according to WD official website, the WD 8TB RAID Premium was support to be running at much lower temperture
Operating temp 0-30*C
Non-Operating temp -40*C-70*C
According to the program you advice me to use Speccy, my raid 8tb duo had;
operating temp 42*C
non-operating temp 48*C
Isn’t wd red hdd suppose to be made for nas system, which usually means running all night?
How do you suppose to use this raid premium if the temp is 50*C and leave it on all night?
