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I didn't actually take the drive out, and was clearly only referring to the heat issue. You take your risks when removing the drive, of course.
I realized earlier that my calculations were...
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That's not a simple solution if you want to keep the warranty...
Also, what is your room temperature? Either your room temp sensor is wrong, or the data from your drive is off by a bit.. because...
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Admittedly I haven't touched them. I'm just reading the sensors. I'm really not trying to troll or anything dude. Are they known to be inaccurate?
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Sorry pet peeve--stop it. There is no way to get your hardware below room temps using fans. Laws of physics do apply to PC cooling unfortunately.
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For those complaining about heat, the solution is a new case. I just got the Antec 300 and put two 120mm fans from an earlier SD (years ago) in there...and my HDDs do not crack 30 deg C now; they're...
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Did you find any videos or images of the tabs close up? I'd like to see them but honestly, I might leave this as an external drive. plenty fast....did you check speed differences external vs....
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I tried pretty hard not to break them tabs, but there's pretty much no way to avoid it. So far its all good as a internal HDD.
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You might cal B&H and see if they have a replacement to sell you that was a cancelled order, and call HGST and see about getting a replacement. Let us know how it goes, perhaps they'd allow you open...
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it was a total pain to break the tabs in order to remove the HDD, but everything is all good as a int hdd so far.
Had an issue at first since, but changed from MBR to GPT under disk management...
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I got 3--Opened one and it will not initialize. "Disk not ready" it says. I can't even hear the thing spin up. BUT the Interwebs seem to indicate that it is a faulty enclosure, not necessarily the...
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Running HOT at 54°C, though. Kinda wondering if this is too hot, but I have a small fan that might suit the case so I'll see if that can cool it off while I do testing. the only holes are on the...
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Yayyyyy!
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GREAT NEWS!!
Looks like a good drive is inside mine, HDS723030ALA640, accordig to CrystalDiskInfo 5.0.4 it is in good health idling at 36 Celcius.
That would be this rather expensive drive:...
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I just got my two... before cracking them open, what do you recommend for a stress test?
I'd like to run them through a 24 or 48 hour stress test, before voiding the warranty ;) and putting in my...
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Received it yesterday, sadly it won't work with Win 8. There seem to be multiple threads discussing this on Microsoft support forums!! That's a deal breaker for me and will be returning it very soon..
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Best to just let it go man, does the body and mind a world of good. Hoarding any kind of media is largely a huge waste of time. It is its own addiction. People will learn eventually. Hopefully;)
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Who's got 24hours to wait? Ive got a massive PRON collection that needs backing up pronto.
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HDD Scan is also solid.
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thanks, I do use crystaldisk, I'll look at those others as well I appreciate it!
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It's always nice to be able to use the hard drive manufacturer's tool which is why it's really disappointing that Hitachi's DFT (Drive Fitness Tool) specifically states it does not work for 3TB...
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