iMac i7's Hard Drive is 56 Degrees Celsius?

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iMac i7's Hard Drive is 56 Degrees Celsius?

Hi. The newscast report it's around 32 degrees celsius. The iMac i7's hard drive using SMARTReporter says the hard drive is at 56 degrees celsius with just Safari and Mail launched. Will the hard drive be damages (and the iMac itself). It's not really hot, it's a cloudy day. I have a western digital Firewire Time Machine backup. The iMac was bought last March 2010 only, 4 months ago. Nothing's blocking the ventilation. Would this iMac be ok?Please advise. Thanks in advance.

Gbu.

Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Jul 5, 2010 1:41 AM

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WZZZ

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Jul 5, 2010 9:22 AM in response to Alvin777

That's very hot, and I don't know if your fans are ramping up or not. My guess is probably not; I have no idea how hot things have to get before the fans get off their minimums. I noticed my drive was getting up to 51C and the HD fan was still running at its slowest. You can install a little fan program which will allow you to set minimum fan rpms. I have 3 different settings in increments up to around 2K for when things get really hot.

In very hot weather I allow the computer to sleep and cool off more often.

SMCFan Control
http://www.eidac.de/

For ten bucks you can also install Hardware Monitor, which will give you readouts of mostly everything, including the fan rpms. It is very accurate.

http://www.bresink.com/osx/HardwareMonitor.html

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