Thanks everyone for the very useful answers. I had a quick look: [root@shark5 ~]# for disk in $(smartctl --scan | egrep -o megaraid,[0-9]+) ; do echo -n "$disk - " ; smartctl -a /dev/sdb -d $disk | grep 'Current Drive Temperature' ; done megaraid,0 - Current Drive Temperature: 31 C megaraid,1 - Current Drive Temperature: 32 C megaraid,2 - Current Drive Temperature: 32 C megaraid,3 - Current Drive Temperature: 31 C megaraid,4 - Current Drive Temperature: 32 C megaraid,5 - Current Drive Temperature: 30 C megaraid,6 - Current Drive Temperature: 32 C megaraid,7 - Current Drive Temperature: 32 C megaraid,8 - Current Drive Temperature: 31 C megaraid,9 - Current Drive Temperature: 32 C megaraid,10 - Current Drive Temperature: 34 C megaraid,11 - Current Drive Temperature: 32 C megaraid,12 - Current Drive Temperature: 56 C megaraid,13 - Current Drive Temperature: 58 C megaraid,14 - Current Drive Temperature: 44 C megaraid,15 - Current Drive Temperature: 45 C megaraid,16 - Current Drive Temperature: 47 C megaraid,17 - Current Drive Temperature: 51 C
58 degrees C seems very hot to me, and indeed disks 12 and 13 are in the back of the machine. We have lots of these servers and we've noticed that these rear disks fail rather often. The 2 disks in the rear have as many failures as the 12 disks in front. I guess the next step would be to check at which speed the fans blowing. Cheers, Onno
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