Hard Drive Temps.

[dml54]

Does anyone know where on the hard drive would be the best placement for a temperature probe? And what would be a good operating temperature for a Western Digital 80Gb, 7200 RPM, 8Mb cache?
Thank You for any help

 

[InlineFive]

Why don't you enable S.M.A.R.T. support (in the BIOS), download SiSoftSandra and run a Hard Drive test? It will read the drive temperature from it's own internal diode with S.M.A.R.T.

Hope this helps!

 

[Elcs]

If my memory serves me well, WD SE drives have SMART but dont read the temps of the drive.

 

[dml54]

Your right the drives like I have dont read temperatures when SMART is enabled

 

[WobbleWobble]

I know the Maxtor drives are able to read the temperatures from SMART. But I'd be suprised if the WD's couldn't...

 

[RalfHutter]

Originally posted by: WobbleWobble
I know the Maxtor drives are able to read the temperatures from SMART. But I'd be suprised if the WD's couldn't...

WD's can't (well, the very newest ones do but the vast majority of WD's don't). Maxtor, IBM/Hitachi, Seagate, Samsung all do read temps. Go ask WD why they never implemented this until just recently. The ability's existed for as long as S.M.A.R.T. sensors have been around.

 

[dml54]

My Western Digital has a manufacture date of April 2003 and it doesn't read temps with smart. It is hot to the touch and I want to know where the best place to put my temperature probe on the hard drive would be