Thanks for pointing out hddtemp. I wasn't aware of it. But after a quick 'emerge hddtemp', I found out that only one of my drives seems to support giving the tempurature. That's kind of strange because they're all Western Digital drives of recent vintage, 120 GB and two 200 GB. One of the 200 GB drives gave me a tempurature of 32C. Normally, I use a remote probe thermometer and get readings of 34C. with some variation depending on where the drive is. In the past, I've seen specs of 55C being the upper limit on some drives, but that seems really high to me. Actually, your 48C-51C seems high to me as well. I know that some drives are much more sensitive than that. The 45 GB IBM drives were known for failing with the 'click of death' if you ran them too hot.
Steve Rose In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, what is the normal max temperature tolerted by drives, > cpu's, etc? The only tool I have to provide temp info is hddtemp. hda (older, > slower) does not return temp info, but hdb normally is 48C-51C. Is this good, > bad, or indifferent? > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
