Why does wd say high temperature is normal?
WD wants to sell HDDs – thats why they specify such high temperatures as “normal” and “healthy” although it is easy and more economic for customers to cool them down to good values, when you have a fan in the case.
What’s the operating temperature of a WD Red Drive?
FYI if you missed my post above it has the temperatures for the Red drives along with Green’s and Blues from the WD specification PDF’s for each drive class. Currently, per that PDF, the operating temperature is 0C to 65C (On the base casting), and non-operating temperature from -40C to 70C for the WD Red drives.
Why is my WD my Cloud 4TB overheating?
NOT the temperature of the running device, which, due to power consumption, will be higher than ambient. An internal over-temperature condition is indicated by a red front panel LED. Your drive is running normally. Oh cool.
How to detect a WD external hard drive?
Go to Setting > Update & security. Tab on Recovery > Advanced Startup > Restart now. PC will automatically boot into another Startup Settings screen. Press F4 to initiate PC reboot into Safe Mode. Then check whether the WD external hard disk can be detected or not. Method 2. Change drive letter to make unrecognized WD external hard drive detectable
WD wants to sell HDDs – thats why they specify such high temperatures as “normal” and “healthy” although it is easy and more economic for customers to cool them down to good values, when you have a fan in the case.
FYI if you missed my post above it has the temperatures for the Red drives along with Green’s and Blues from the WD specification PDF’s for each drive class. Currently, per that PDF, the operating temperature is 0C to 65C (On the base casting), and non-operating temperature from -40C to 70C for the WD Red drives.
NOT the temperature of the running device, which, due to power consumption, will be higher than ambient. An internal over-temperature condition is indicated by a red front panel LED. Your drive is running normally. Oh cool.
What are the symptoms of a hard drive overheating?
Hard Drive Overheating Symptoms. Unusual heat to touch. Running fans are louder. Files cannot open, corrupted. Computer high (100%) disk usage. Hard drive very slow suddenly to access or open files. Computer/laptop suddenly shut down, displaying a completely blue screen. Constantly bad sector error messages appear when trying to open the drive.