A hard disk (HDD) or hard drive in electronic engineering is called a device for magnetic storage of information. It consists of one or more glass or aluminum plates coated with a ferromagnetic alloy. All information is recorded on the plates, which is retained even after the computer is turned off.
Often during operation, the hard drive heats up, and there is a huge risk of losing information accumulated over a long period of time. There can be several reasons for heating. One of them is the failure or loss of power of the cooling cooler. It is worth replacing it with a new one immediately. Initially, it is worth purchasing a spacious system unit with many heatsink holes and several coolers in the kit. With such a case for a computer, you do not have to worry about the high temperature inside it. You should look for a possible reason for the heating of the hard drive in the power system by checking the voltage in it. Hard drive manufacturers always expect it to operate at a maximum of 5 watts. However, when the computer is heavily loaded, the power supply requires much more voltage. From here, a lot of power is fed to the hard drive and it heats up. Without hesitation, you need to replace the power supply with a more powerful one. An overheated power supply will kill a hard disk faster than from insufficient cooling by a cooler. It happens that for some reason the rotation speed of the disk suddenly increases. This invariably leads to heating of the hard drive. There are programs that allow you to control the temperature of the hard drive. One of them is called "Hard Drive Temperature". By installing it and hovering over the shortcut with the cursor, you can immediately see the temperature of the hard drive. The program also allows you to automatically turn off the drive if its temperature exceeds the maximum set value. There are various analogues of the "Hard Drive Temperature" program. One of them - "HDDlife", not only shows the temperature of the hard disk, but also the degree of its wear and tear. And also the program is able to control the speed of rotation of the disk and reduce it as needed. Both programs can be downloaded from the Internet in the public domain at the request of "utility software".
