On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Cedric wrote: > Hi all, I just stumbled over a program that can read out the temperature of my > harddisk. Here's the link: > http://www.guzu.net/linux/hddtemp.php > > Greetz, cedric >
I use smartctl from smartmontools, but I take what the drives report with a big pinch of salt - my 'server' has a couple of 120GB drives in a RAID-1 array for backups, and the reported temperatures definitely benefit from spinning down when idle. At the moment, room temperature is probably around 22 degrees. The main drive (40GB seagate) currently reports 28 degrees. One of the RAID drives is also a Seagate, that reports 26 degrees, which seems plausible. The other is a Maxtor, which claims to be at 14 degrees (yes, fourteen). The desktop box I'm using at the moment reports the main drive (Seagate) is at 46 degrees, and you should have seen what it reported before I improved the cooling 8-) Ken -- das eine Mal als Trag�die, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
