Hello everyone,

 

I am using two hard drives, TOSHIBA 4TB/7200 SATA3 128MB, however, I've noticed that the temperature is showing as red, I would like to know is that the temperature at around 40-50C is normal for these hard drives in Unraid? By the way, the two hard drives are in the Hotswap Orico 1106SS.

 

Kind regards.

 

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While it's not above the rated thermal specification for your drives, those ARE warmer than you really want to have the drives running at; especially if this is what you're seeing in normal operation.    If this is, for example, after several hours of parity checking, that's less of an issue than if it's a normal temp ... but even then it's higher than you should be seeing.  It seems like you're not getting good airflow through your drive cages.  You may need to add another fan in the case to pull air through these drives.

 

... by the way, the rated thermal specifications for your drive are operating temps up to 55 degrees C

 

7200rpm drives will run warmer than the lower speed drives often used for NAS storage, but should still not get above ~ 45 or so during parity checks ... and ideally you want the temps in the 30's during normal operation.

 

Re: Garycase

 

Thank you for your response, I will certainly try to place the hard drives some where cooler or perhaps install a fan somewhere to cool down the hard drives.