Those of you with WD Scorpio Black's...

[vinuneuro]

What idle temps are you seeing?

[yak]

Sunday morning, the laptop is running mostly in idle, I'm just checking some websites from time to time. Ambient temperature about 25C.

WDC WD3200BEKT: 37C
Samsung HM160HC (UltraBay): 38C

Hard drive temperatures as reported by HD Tune.

Why do you ask? Are you planning to get this drive or are you concerned about your temps? If the latter, what's yours?

[Harryc]

I run that drive in my Mac Mini. Hard Drive temps rarely exceed 42*C. It's a cool and fast running drive. Highly recommended.

[vinuneuro]

Thanks for your temps. The first Scorpio Black had noise issues and started locking up, and got sent back. Now with the drive that came as replacement, there's too much vibration and it idles at 41-42C. The last one idled at 38 and rarely got past 42, so I just wanted to confirm that I'm not imagining the problems with the second one.

[Yacek]

35C at idle.... 40-41C with intensive file operations...

[bill bolton]

WD3200BEKT in an X61. 35 degrees C with moderate disk activity.

Cheers,

Bill B.