Your Hard Drive Gets Very Hot?
Hey,
I have an internal HDD which is used on my Samsung laptop and recently get very
hot. I know it is normal the drive does get some heat when it is in use.
However, it just gets so hot that I am just afraid to continue using it for
worrying it will get burned at any time. Can anyone explain to me why this
happens? What am I supposed to do to fix this hot hard drive? Thank you very
much in advance!
OK! Have you checked the laptop fan? Does
the fan work well? Do you have any background processes that are still using
this hot hard drive? Do not panic! Here are several reasons why people would
get a overheated hard drive and related solutions. Hope they will help you out:
Why Does Your Internal Drive Get Hot or Overheated?
As a matter of fact, there are quite a few
reasons that can bring people really hot computer HDD. Hope you can find yours:
1).
Open too many programs, files or processes that are still using your drive.
Generally, the computer internal hard drive
is often used to store and transfer computer data. When you are using your
computer to surf the internet, play games, edit files or running other
software, the computer is also reading or writing information on this selected
internal hard drive. Just that data reading or writing process makes your
computer hard drive heat up. Moreover, the more programs, files or processes
you open at one time, the more possible your internal drive will become hotter
and hotter. Therefore, do not running too many sites, software, files or games
at the same time.
2).
Computer fans or heat dissipation devices are damaged or broken somehow.
In fact, all computer hard disks generate
heat when they are in use. But, not all of them will be overheated. Why? Many
computers do have been designed with heat dissipation devices, like the
internal fans. Therefore, when your computer fans or related heat dissipation
devices are damaged or broken somehow, you also will face such extremely hot
hard drive.
3).
Dust
The heat can not only stay on the internal
components of this hard drives and let it generate much more heat while it is
running, and also will stop on the computer fans or other devices to negatively
affect the smooth dissipation of generated heat. Overall, dust also could be
one of the major reasons for a overheated drive.
How to Fix Hot Hard Disk?
Have checked your computer hardware and
hard drive yet? Find why you encounter this very hot hard drive? If not, you
also can go try the below methods to fix this overheated hard drive issues.
1).
End all Useless websites, programs or tools.
Is this hard drive still in use on your
computer? Open many sites, programs, files and other tools there? Immediately
close all useless ones, including some background process.
Please
Note: In order to end the background processes that
cannot be seen, you can go try this: Press "Ctrl +Alt+Delete" at the
same time to open "Windows Task Manager" and then, click
"Processes" tab to choose all unnecessary processes. And, at last,
click "End Process" to close them all.
2).
Check the computer fans or use an external fan/laptop desk
In case of your overheated hard drive is
caused by damaged dissipation devices, immediately check your computer fans or
related devices carefully. If they are really damaged, merely change another
now one for future use, like some external fans, laptop desk and other USB heat
dissipation devices.
3).
Keep your computer and hard drive cool all the time
Of course, if your computer fans or heat
dissipation devices have no any problems, you are also supposed to keep your
devices in cool place all the time. Do not let it expose to the strong light
directly in hot summer. Do not put it in a place with high temperature.
4).
Keep your computer and heat dissipation device clean all the time
Since the dust is also one of the reasons
why people get hot hard drive, you’d better also regularly clean the computer
components or external fans well to keep them all away from dust.
5).
Monitor computer hard drive temperature
In daily use, in case of encountering
similar overheating hard drive issues, also monitor computer drive temperature
with special software or devices.
Useful Tips for Fixing Overheating Hard Drive Issues:
1).
Extract data off from hard drive and back it all up well.
In case this computer hard drive will bedamaged seriously for too hot temperatures latter, you’d better extract all
crucial or useful files, pictures, music, mails and other stuffs out from this
hard drive and save them all on two or more drives or devices for backing up.
2).
Recover important hard drive files with file data recovery software.
Have deleted very important hard drive
files when trying to close some useless sites, files, programs and more mistakenly?
Or computer hard drive becomes inaccessible for some drive is not formatted error? OK! In order to access these hard drive stuffs again,
download drive data recovery software to recover deleted files off from hard
drive with success.
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