Hi all.

Seagate site says:

The operating temperature range for most Seagate hard drives is 5 to 50 degrees Celsius.
Note: With our newer model drives, the maximum temperature is now at 60 degrees Celsius.

That's cool.
:cool:

But what is a "Newer" drive???

From what capacities, would you say?

I am asking with respect to my 500GB Seagates, and 1x 400GB Seagate.

The three 500GB's are brand new, the 400GB is about 1 year old(from brand new).

Some clarification would be great.
:)

The highest temperature of all drives has not yet exceeded 44'C, so I feel that I am safe, but would just like to clarify which from which capacity they might consider "Newer" to be.

Thanks.

I think you should be able to dig out a data sheet for the specific model (http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/product_finder) on the Seagate Website which would normally show the acceptable range for both the operating temperature and the non-operating temperature.

Okey dokey.

EDIT: Found datasheet - all 7200.10 series drives temperature range(operating) is 0'C - 60'C.

Thanks.

Somewhat bewildered that I did not think to simply look up the datasheet myself...
I must be getting old...
;)