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Momentus XT for Torrenting?
tomoya-kun:
My external I run torrents on gets really hot even with good ventilation, like almost too hot to touch, is that destroy HDD?
raandomer:
--- Quote from: tomoya-kun on August 29, 2011, 03:19:07 AM ---My external I run torrents on gets really hot even with good ventilation, like almost too hot to touch, is that destroy HDD?
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google the operational temperature of your drive and if its over then yes you are destroying the drive
datora:
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--- Quote from: raandomer on August 29, 2011, 07:45:00 AM ---
--- Quote from: tomoya-kun on August 29, 2011, 03:19:07 AM ---My external I run torrents on gets really hot even with good ventilation, like almost too hot to touch, is that destroy HDD?
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google the operational temperature of your drive and if its over then yes you are destroying the drive
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THIS.
Also, if any drive is operating at ~40°C or higher (especially for sustained lengths of time), you really want to find a way to run it cooler. I try to keep all my drives under ~35°C, and they're usually under ~30°C. Technically, 45°C or 50°C is supposed to be safe for many drives, but it really makes me uncomfortable when they're consistently over 35°C.
Your practical everyday running temp should be at least 10% (or, even better, 20% or more) under it's max technical spec.
kitamesume:
^ thats why i prefer 5400rpm externals with at least 30MB/s average transfer speeds, they dont heat up much.
Edit: try using the drive outside it's case and see if it heats up as much, if it does then theres a problem with the case.
AnimeJanai:
None of my external USB drives get hot but I use cases that have the drive mounted to metal exteriors which makes sure the heat gets out. I never use plastic covered cases because plastic is a heat insulator and keeps the heat inside. Some submodels of hard drive brands run hot too. In general, the green drives run cooler. Compared to old maxtors (before seagate bought them) or western digitals, my samsung drives run cooler despite all of them being 7200 RPM drives. If your external drives are SATA, then you can use one of those external SATA docks instead of a conventional enclosure. External SATA docks used to be for just one drive, but a lot of them now accommodate at least two drives. An example of a single-drive dock is my post at: http://forums.bakabt.me/index.php?topic=12961.0 And you may also consider hot-swap SATA drive bays especially those solutions which let you fit three drives into the two 5.25inch bays in my post at: http://forums.bakabt.me/index.php?topic=28141.0 Another plus is if the external dock as an eSATA connection. If your PC case has eSATA, then you can connect the dock via eSATA and have very fast file transfer speed.
You can also reduce the amount of head movement by setting larger cache sizes in your uTorrent or Azureus client especially for the write cache. Increasing the read cache only has small returns unless you are only doing one torrent file at a time. By one torrent file I mean a SINGLE torrent which contains a SINGLE file. I am not referring to a single torrent that has multiple files in it. Furthermore, head threashing is reduced if you have a fairly defragged drive BEFORE you create the empty torrent destination file(s). That way, the destination file is not located all over the drive surface which causes the head to whip around.
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