<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/4/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steve Peters - Priority Electronics</b> <<a href="mailto:steve@priorityelectronics.com">steve@priorityelectronics.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">So after finding hddtemp, I was able to get the temps of my drives, but only<br>the internal ones:<br><br>
Internal Drives<br>/dev/sda: ST3500830A: 53°C<br>/dev/sdb: ST3750640AS: 54°C<br>/dev/sdc: ST3750640AS: 63°C<br>USB External Drives<br>/dev/sdd: ST3120814A: S.M.A.R.T. not available<br>/dev/sde: ST3500630AS: drive supported, but it doesn't have a temperature<br>
sensor.<br>/dev/sdf: ST3500830A: drive supported, but it doesn't have a temperature<br>sensor.<br><br><br>Drive /dev/sdc was doing some heavy file copying/backups from one of the usb<br>drives, so it's temp is way higher than the others. The others 2 internal<br>
ones sda and sdb are sitting there idle.<br><br>Does this temp seem way to high for hard drives? I have had sda and sdb for<br>over a year now and have not encountered any issues, but I just want to make<br>sure I'm not killing these drives with these temps. What kind of temps do my<br>
fellow myth users encounter?<br><br></blockquote></div>
<div>I get :</div>
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<div>[root@oscar ~]# hddtemp /dev/sda<br>/dev/sda: ST3200820AS: 38°C<br>[root@oscar ~]# hddtemp /dev/sdb<br>/dev/sdb: ST3750640AS: 40°C<br>[root@oscar ~]# hddtemp /dev/sdc<br>/dev/sdc: ST3750640AS: 40°C<br>[root@oscar ~]# hddtemp /dev/sdd<br>
/dev/sdd: ST3750640AS: 40°C<br>[root@oscar ~]# hddtemp /dev/sde<br>/dev/sde: ST3750640AS: 40°C<br>[root@oscar ~]# hddtemp /dev/sdf<br>/dev/sdf: ST3750640AS: 40°C<br><br>smartctl tells me that 3 of my drives have hit 71°C in the past (which was clearly not good for them). Since then I've added 2 additional case fans. /dev/sde - which was added about 2 months ago, but since I added the new fans, has only hit a historic high of 51°C.</div>