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I put an SSD in mine and, yep, that happened. So I put a bit of wire across the sockets in the sensor cable and now it monitors at a constant 30C with no fan activity. No fuss, no hassle, and SSDs don't need serious cooling anyway. Seems a bit of a mountain out of a molehill story from my POV.

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I think having to short out a sensor on your computer because you changed the hard drive warrants such a story.

Luckily for you, you used a SSD and don't have to worry about cooling... What about the people wanting to add a 1TB drive or simply needing to replace their dead one?

It seems this idea might not work with the latest edition but on the previous generation you could do the the same and then run smcfancontrol. A handy free tool that lets you set the minimum RPM of any fan in the system - works a treat. The article seems to suggest this might not work in the newer ones, alas, but I haven't got one to try it on.

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