how to monitor hdd temprature

[Robbo]

On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 00:18 +0200, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> > In the Ubuntu's Universe package repository, there's the package
> > "hddtemp".
> > After installing it, you can check the HDD temperature using something
> > like:
> >   # sudo hddtemp /dev/hda
> 
> 
> Thanks, simple and effective :-)
> 
> Both of my hard drives have exactly the same temperature, 52°C.
> Granted, that doesn't tell much... what is the recommended operating
> temperature for drives to be reliable in the long term ?
> 

Mine range from 46°C to 52°C, they seem quite warm to the touch, so
myself am looking for additional cooling!  There in very warm room at
the moment (28-30°C) though.

> Both drives are technically similar, old school IDE 40G IDE 7200rpm
> drives. Both are set to spin constantly (I disabled stand by delay with
> hdparm voluntarily).

> Once, at work, a quality engineer from Maxtor told me to run away from
> fast SCSI drives in desktop computers (ie, small/tight case, no adequate
> cooling), because they end up running so hot that the electronics (which
> is cheaply designed on consumer drives, to make things even worse),
> doesn't take long before failing one way or another.

Guess he's correct, but if you need/want a 10k+ drive in your desktop
then I'm guessing you want decent cooling and case anyhow!