Samsung HD160JJ temperatures

[Matas]

I have just purchased Samsung HD160JJ hard drive. I installed HD Tune program to see temperatures of hard drive. The program shows that temperatures are strangly jumping. For example: from 36C to 40C(not rising 36C-37C-38C-39C-40C), but jumps from 36C to 40C. I have also tried HDD Thermometer, where monitoring is 1second. The same situation(from 36C to 40C). Is it normal?

 

[Bludd]

HDD Thermometer shows all my drives steadily increase in temp.

 

[Matas]

Can it be that serial ata drivers from MB floppy are a bit buggy and causes this nonsense with temp?

 

[_xxx_]

I just know that my new SATA Samsung drive (250 GB) gets hot as hell. Something's fishy.

 

[Matas]

I have hdd cooler, so my Samsung is running cool. But with temp. monitoring is something wrong...

 

[Bludd]

Can it be that serial ata drivers from MB floppy are a bit buggy and causes this nonsense with temp?

Well, SMART is usually hardware/firmware based. I don't think drivers will help.

 

[Matas]

Well, SMART is usually hardware/firmware based. I don't think drivers will help.

So what could help?

 

[BrynS]

Do you have any other HD monitoring software installed and are you using the latest version of HD Tune (2.52)?

I just installed HD Tune 2.52 and haven't noticed temperature spiking, with both of my drives, a Samsung SP1614N (160GB IDE-133) and a Samsung SP2504C (250GB SATA2) sitting at 29'C and 27'C respectively, although they are both being cooled by this HD cooler and my full tower case has quite a few 80mm fans, however Motherboard Monitor 5 reports an ambient case temperature of 30'C at the moment -- it's rather warm in the UK at present!

 

[Matas]

Yes, I have the newest HD Tune version 2.52 and I'm using only this monitoring program.

 

[stevem]

Some boards are particular with sensor init. Try SpeedFan. I've found it very useful.

 

[Matas]

In my same MB I had old Seagate 80Gb U-Ata hdd and everything was alright.