Hard drive upgrade temperature sensor

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Hard drive upgrade temperature sensor

I was watching the OWC video (www.macsales.com) on upgrading the internal hard drive and it showed a temperature sensor attached to the hard drive. It looks like the sensor is attached to a plug or something on the front of the Hitachi drive. I have a Seagate 500GB drive and I don't see any plug in front of the drive that I can attach this heat sensor plug to.

Am I seeing this right? Or can I attach the sensor to any part of the front of the Seagate drive? Or is there a specific part of the drive I should attach the sensor to?

Thanks.

Mac Mini G4, Intel 2009, Mac OS X (10.5.7)

Posted on May 25, 2009 10:24 PM

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Answer 1

May 26, 2009 3:53 PM in response to atarian90

Well,

You're seeing correctly. There is no plug. It is just stuck at that particular spot with sticky adhesive.

I put a 320 GB Hitachi drive almost immediately in my 2009 Mac mini, and the adhesive seemed to re-stick quite well onto the new drive.

Peace to you,
C. Livingstone

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Answer 2

May 27, 2009 12:54 AM in response to atarian90

yea i dropped a 320 gb in mine as well, and its just like a little sticky pad thing and you just stick back on the same place on the new drive. very easy upgrade!

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Answer 3

May 27, 2009 4:01 PM in response to rickcollins08

I just installed a SSD. Corsair 128gb. I replaced the temperature sensor, but it still reads 0'c.

May be they just don't produce any heat or I didn't stick it down enough? 🙂

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Answer 4

May 29, 2009 4:57 PM in response to Mac Adict

Yeah,

With your solid state hard drive, you seem to be in "tall cotton", with no concern about temps.

Peace to you all,
C. Livingstone

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Answer 5

May 29, 2009 9:48 PM in response to atarian90

thats pretty cool i did not know that SSDs didnt produce heat

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Answer 6

Jun 7, 2009 3:08 PM in response to rickcollins08

Well I know they have no moving parts so they generate alot less heat but they still have ram chips inside which should generate heat like normal ram.

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