Easiest way to measure HDD Temp?

gonsped · Post by **gonsped** » Fri Jun 06, 2003 3:15 pm

Anyone have any idea whats the easiest way to measure temperatures for a HDD?

JimK · Post by **JimK** » Fri Jun 06, 2003 4:14 pm

DTtemp.

See the links section on the main site.

gonsped · Post by **gonsped** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 12:00 am

How does this program report the temperature of the HDD? I got it to load but I cannot see anywhere where I can check the temperature of the HDD. The system tray icon just shows a HDD icon.

I can even set the critical temp for the HDD and monitoring intervals - but still nowhere can I see a temperature display :-/

I am trying to monitor the temp of my WD 120GB 8MB Cache HDD.

ez2remember · Post by **ez2remember** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 1:09 am

I not familar with the program myself, but have you tried double clicking on the tray icon or right clicking the tray icon and seeing your options.

Anyway I use SpeedFan to monitor the temps of my HDD. It is free and can monitor everything else too including CPU and sytems temps.

Check the main site 'useful links' section to get hold of it. This program is free..

Clippet · Post by **Clippet** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 1:29 am

One note about DTemp. I've used it successfully on a 60GB Maxtor and 20GB Fujitsu.

But on my new Samsung 60GB it will not show the correct temp, it shows like maximum value and freaks out. That makes we wonder if the temps other two drives was correct

HadroLepton · Post by **HadroLepton** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 1:38 am

gonsped, dtemp reads the temperatures from the smart feature of the harddisks. it shows the temps as a number in the tray icon. one icon for each harddisk.

it is possible that your hd supports smart but does not report temperatures. i have some western digital hds (wd205ba) which dont report temperatures although it supports other smart features.

please post some more info about your system like mainboard and harddisk model.

i suggest you download aida32 and check wether your hd(s) support smart and wether the smart feature reports the temps
http://www.aida32.hu/aida32.php

in aida32 goto storage then smart. here scan through the attribute column looking for temperature. if it doesn't have a temperature row then you are out of luck i guess.

gonsped · Post by **gonsped** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 2:36 am

Sigh......looks like the WD 120GB JB 8MB Cache model does not support SMART temp monitoring........double sigh..........

Riffer · Post by **Riffer** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 3:36 am

It's amazing that some modern drives don't support temperature monitoring, but if they do:

Motherboard Monitor

Fingle · Post by **Fingle** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 4:53 am

I downloaded D'Temp after reading this and I have AIDA32 as well. My HD is a WD800JB and it doesn't look like it supports temp monitoring either even if it does have SMART. Oh well....

kork · Post by **kork** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 5:21 am

Has anyone experience with measuring temperatures of drives in a RAID array? I am running Win2k on a RAID-1 setup with two 120GB Barracuda V's. Windows recognizes the drives as a single RAID array. I have tried DTemp, SpeedFan and AIDA32 (MBM, too IIRC), but not one of them shows the drives' temperatures in this configuration. I used to have a single 80GB 'Cuda V which worked just fine with DTemp so I assume the 120GB's should do so as well.

Clippet · Post by **Clippet** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 5:28 am

Remember, some motherboards have SMART functionality disabled in BIOS by default, or disabled by mistake from users. You must enable it

But first look at the manufacturers specs on your harddrive for SMART.

Post by **Ralf Hutter** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 6:00 am

WD HDDs (at least the newer ones) DO NOT have temperature monitoring ability.

Mirar · Post by **Mirar** » Fri Jun 20, 2003 9:41 am

% hddtemp /dev/hd[ab]
/dev/hda: IC35L120AVV207-0: 53°C
/dev/hdb: IC35L120AVV207-0: 42°C

Gosh, that's high. I better turn up those fans... hddtemp is Linux-specific.
http://coredump.free.fr/linux/hddtemp.php

marc999 · Post by **marc999** » Fri Jun 20, 2003 1:57 pm

WD HDDs (at least the newer ones) DO NOT have temperature monitoring ability.

Ralf, do you know if this includes the Raptors ?

Post by **Ralf Hutter** » Sat Jun 21, 2003 4:33 am

marc999 wrote:
WD HDDs (at least the newer ones) DO NOT have temperature monitoring ability.
Ralf, do you know if this includes the Raptors ?

No I don't, they're too new. Sorry.

Jan Kivar · Post by **Jan Kivar** » Sat Jun 21, 2003 10:39 am

marc999 wrote:
WD HDDs (at least the newer ones) DO NOT have temperature monitoring ability.
Ralf, do you know if this includes the Raptors ?

Well, after a brief search: Yes they do!

Cheers,

Jan