u/GAMELASTER

Normal temperatures for Seagate 7200 RPM HDDs?

I am running TrueNAS Scale in DELL Precision Tower 3620 case. Before I used two 4TB WD Red Plus 3.5" 5200 RPM HDDs, they had temps: Idle/Current: 41°C, Min: 24°C, Max: 43°C. (Info from Multi-Report tool).
I needed to replace them, so I chose two ST8000VN004 - Seagate Iron Wolf - 8TB 3.5" 7200 RPM.
During resilvering, one of them reached 65°C, what surprised me, there was same air flow as with previous drives. Currently, HDDs have those temps: Idle/Current: 49°C, Min: 46°C, Max: 56°C. Of course, those values are too high for Multi-Report tool, so it's always critical warning.
I understand that it's 7200RPM and higher capacity, but is normal to have such temperatures even on idle? CPU have 34°C, room temperature 25.6°C, air flow should be fine.

Of course, my first action was to check the datasheet, but it only says "Operating Temperature (drive reported, max °C): 65" and "Nonoperating Temperature (ambient, min / max °C): -40 / 70".
Little bit lower, there is note "It is not recommended to operate at sustained drive temperatures above 60°C. Higher temperatures may affect drive health.". Based on this, I am still fine with the temperatures, but I am still not sure, what are real good/normal temperatures.

Are those temperatures fine? Or I should find the culprit and lower the operating temperatures? Mainly, I am worried if during resilver/scrub, the temps will be more than 60°C.

reddit.com
u/GAMELASTER — 1 day ago