Harddrive Temperature Monitoring Software

[DaemonAT]

When I used to have my regular harddrives hooked up to the standard IDE ports, they supported temperature monitoring through SMART. I had an application which monitored their temperature and notified me of excessive heat (that app is called DTemp).

However, I recently upgraded to 2 SATA harddrives set up on a RAID controller (striping) and unfortunately that program does not support SATA or RAID harddrives. Do any of you have any suggestions for software that will monitor harddrive temperature with their own internal temp sensors???

 

[BW86]

doesnt speedfan monitor HDD temperatures?

 

[DaemonAT]

Unfortunately, it's in the same boat like the other applications that I've used to monitor HD temperature, it does not detect the drives because they are connected to the RAID controller...

 

[dxmage]

If you take IDE drives and hook them into a RAID card (Promise) then XP will see the drives as SCSI and you will not be able to use the smart functions of the drives. While it might be possible to write some code of your own up to do the monitoring of RAID and or SATA I'm pretty sure that there isn't anything comercially available that will do what you want.

 

[DaemonAT]

Oh well, thanks for you replies...

 

[Squally Leonharty]

I don't really know if this helps, but Windows XP sees my HDD as SCSI (it's actually connected to a PCI HDD controller) and I can use SMART just fine. I'm using Active SMART, so give that a try. You can find it here: http://www.ariolic.com/activesmart/

 

[DaemonAT]

Unfortunately, since my HDs are hooked up to the RAID controller, the Active SMART program does not detect them correctly (the one consolidated drive shows up as some garbled letters and capacity of 0MB). Thanks for trying...

 

[imported_elwood]

I run a raid setup and i use this program to monitor all my system information as well as my RAID-0 HDD's temps. It only shows one temp. Maybe it combines the two temps together, i'm not sure. But it does work. Try it out and if you have any problems, just let me know and i should be able to help you.

 

[DaemonAT]

Well, I've never quite liked MBM, it just seems like it's too cluttered. I installed it again, in hopes that I have somehow missed something, but nowhere do I see a temperature sensor for my RAID controller ... what exactly shows up under your Temperature Sensor box?