How do you monitor drive temperatures
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How do you monitor drive temperatures
Everyone talks freely about the different temps that their hard drives run at. How do you measure the hard drive temperature?
Do new-ish drives have some kind of sensor and firmware built in?
Or, do you need to physically place sensors on the drive?
And, I'm guessing you need some kind of program like Motherboard Monitor 5 to get the readings?
Do new-ish drives have some kind of sensor and firmware built in?
Or, do you need to physically place sensors on the drive?
And, I'm guessing you need some kind of program like Motherboard Monitor 5 to get the readings?
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The newest version of MBM5 has built-in HDD temp monitoring. It uses the thermal readings from the built-in sensors just like Speedfan and Dtemp and HDDtemp do.
All newer HDDs have built-in monitoring, it's called "S.M.A.R.T.". It monitors a bunch of different parameters of the HDD and will try and predict if the HDD is going to fail. Search Google for more accurate info .
All newer HDDs have built-in monitoring, it's called "S.M.A.R.T.". It monitors a bunch of different parameters of the HDD and will try and predict if the HDD is going to fail. Search Google for more accurate info .
S.M.A.R.T? how about C.O.N.S.I.S.T.E.N.T.
Sorry, I never trust internally reported temperatures. Call me old fashioned, but I wedge a cheap temperature probe between my hard drives when I want to make sure they are still at 40 degrees. Probes can be had almost anywhere, and cost next to nothing. I'm currently using a cheap UEI probe from Frys ($11), but YMMV.
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I don't think the WD's have temp monitoring. Do they?Ralf Hutter wrote:The newest version of MBM5 has built-in HDD temp monitoring. It uses the thermal readings from the built-in sensors just like Speedfan and Dtemp and HDDtemp do.
All newer HDDs have built-in monitoring, it's called "S.M.A.R.T.". It monitors a bunch of different parameters of the HDD and will try and predict if the HDD is going to fail. Search Google for more accurate info .
how is this activated? to get HD readings from MBM5?? I'm having trouble deciphering this issue!Ralf Hutter wrote:The newest version of MBM5 has built-in HDD temp monitoring. It uses the thermal readings from the built-in sensors just like Speedfan and Dtemp and HDDtemp do.
All newer HDDs have built-in monitoring, it's called "S.M.A.R.T.". It monitors a bunch of different parameters of the HDD and will try and predict if the HDD is going to fail. Search Google for more accurate info .
I agree with MBM being alittle confusing. Try Dtemp instead. All it does is HDD temps, and its as simple as it possibly could be. Dtemp downloadGdog123 wrote:how is this activated? to get HD readings from MBM5?? I'm having trouble deciphering this issue!
It's what I use to monitor my drives.
Thank you. I will give it a try.Rusty075 wrote:I agree with MBM being alittle confusing. Try Dtemp instead. All it does is HDD temps, and its as simple as it possibly could be. Dtemp downloadGdog123 wrote:how is this activated? to get HD readings from MBM5?? I'm having trouble deciphering this issue!
It's what I use to monitor my drives.
Thanks for the kind welcome. Before I forget, what is your PayPal account email again?Rusty075 wrote:You're very welcome.
And welcome to the forums.
Now, they did explain the payment system for advice here right? You can just send the $20 right to my paypal account. Thanks.
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Back on the topic, there is a nice program that monitors drive temps at http://www.siguardian.com There is a lite version and a more complex one, they do cost, but I think they both have a 30 day trial. Just thought I'd throw it in the discussion [/url]