How accurate is HD temp monitoring? My WD7500AAKS is HOT!

[Yukon Trooper]

Trying to figure out why my WD7500AAKS is so hot. During error check and format it hovers around 56C and up to 59C! This is reported by both HDTune and another third party HD temp program. I RMA'd the drive and received a replacement, but it's exactly the same. VERY hot to the touch. What gives? Comparably the Samsung HD753LJ only gets up to 45C on error check and format.

[ZOMGVTEK]

Trying to figure out why my WD7500AAKS is so hot. During error check and format it hovers around 56C and up to 59C! This is reported by both HDTune and another third party HD temp program. I RMA'd the drive and received a replacement, but it's exactly the same. VERY hot to the touch. What gives? Comparably the Samsung HD753LJ only gets up to 45C on error check and format.

Some drives run hot from my experience. You need some good airflow across the thing. Im assuming you dont?

[Yukon Trooper]

Some drives run hot from my experience. You need some good airflow across the thing. Im assuming you dont?
There will be when the drive is installed in the case, but not right now. However, I'm testing both the WD and the Samsung in the same environment, so I'm still looking for an answer about the 10C difference. Anybody else notice how hot these WD7500AAKS drives run?

[xMrBunglex]

i'm not a huge WD fan. i have two Samsungs in my case right now and they're cool and very quiet. probably the quietest hard drives i've ever owned. Everest says my Seagate is 26°C, but it's in an Antec 900 case with a fan blowing directly on it.

[ZOMGVTEK]

My brother has a 74gb raptor, and a 250 ish gb WD drive in his computer, little airflow over them, and the 250 runs 10-15ºC hotter than the raptor. Its not a sensor problem, its quite toasty.

I dont know, it runs super hot though, and he dosent even use it.

[tiro_uspsss]

the more platters the more temp iirc.. i'd highly recommend a slow 120mm fan with those temps! :yepp: