Hard-drive temperature

[Link9rly]

   What's the starting point where hardware should be turned off immediately? My external hard drive reached the temperature of 147F (63 C). I turned it off due to this. Is this the temperature where I should be taking these precautions?

[Leon_Mokomaki]

Might be high for an external HDD. But why do you keep it on all the time anyway?
Most computer processors can reach 70-90*C and most graphics card can reach 100*C

Its different for every component. But your internal HDD inside your computer will never get too hot at all. At the moment my internal HDD is doing a happy 41*C
(And yes i realised that your talking about an external HDD)

Conclusion: Cannot tell since every piece of hardware have their own max temperature.

[Janar]

HDD's are just fine even at 50'C and it's not the heat that breaks them, it's the sudden changes in temperature.

[b2311e]

I really didn't realise you could check the temps of external HDD's :S
I would think it to be fine though, as mentioned above its the sudden change which is a problem. If worst came to worse, it'd probably stop itself before it fried!

[9r2e5i3k]

I really didn't realise you could check the temps of external HDD's :S

An external HDD is just an internal HDD in a case...

[Jack Bauer]

Check HDD developer's website, they probally have the min/max temp on there.