Temperature Of Samsung Hdd

[Ramakrishnan]

i installed Everest Ultimate trial and after installation, it showed the various temperature readings on system tray. Among them, it showed a temperature of 42' C for my Samsung sata HDD 80 GB. Is this normal? Any knowledgeable person please quide me.

[john_the_ultimate]

I have a seagate 80gb HDD and everest show the temp. to be 44C, Also anything below 50C for HDD is normal.

Please post ur queries regarding heating of pc components here in this sticky:http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=29033