How hot can an IDE hard drive get without damage?

 > If this is the disk in concern:
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=83</font" target="_blank">http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=83</font</a>>

Oops, wrong link. That's for SATA drive. Here's EIDE:
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=32" target="_blank">http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=32</a>

Same results, though, 131 F.

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On Sun, 01 May 2005 13:52:08 -0500, Kevin Buffardi
<kevin.buffardi DeleteThis @email.com> wrote:

 >Joe wrote:
  >> I left my computer while it was decompressing a large set of RAR
  >> files (about 1.5 gig). When I returned the SMART alarm had a series
  >> of message that my hard drive was hot. It was showing the hard drive
  >> was at 107 degrees fahrenheit. I stopped the decompressing the RAR
  >> set and backed up the drive. Now I am concerned that I may have
  >> damaged the drive. It is a Western Digital 80G 7200 RPM ATA/100 IDE
  >> Hard Drive.
 >
 >If this is the disk in concern:
 >http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=83
 >
 >then it says the operating temperature is from 41-131 F. 107 degrees
 >isn't that overwhelmingly hot. How long had you been gone from the
 >computer? Was 107 degrees the *current* temperature, or the temperature
 >at time of the warning messages?
 >
 >It wouldn't hurt for you to run some diagnostics on the drive, but if it
 >never reached above 107, it *should* be fine.
 >
 >//Kevin



Thanks for the response Kevin.
I think the drive I have is the 2mb cache rather than the eight but
with your direction I found the data for it. It also has a maximum
temp range of 131 degrees.

I am not certain how hot the drive got. I was gone for about 1-1/2
hours. When I came back there was a whole bunch of warning messages
stacked up on my screen (The speakers were turned off so I got no
audible warning.) I stopped the processes that were running and let
the drive cool down then rebooted the computer.

It appears I have the warning temperature on the SMART software set to
warn when the temp gets above 41 celsius. That works out to just
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