Trying to get Temperature for Maxtor 160gig SATA Drive.

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After killing a couple IDE drives to heat in the past, I have decided
on some serious active cooling for my new SATA drive.

Its a 160gig Maxtor SATA drive. I have a hdd cooler on it, and a
120mm fan in front of it.

I would really like to see what the temperature is of the drive. In
my old EIDE drives, I would use motherboard monitor, or speedfan to
get the temp of the drive under the SMART drives.

Now my new drive doesn't show up under smart, and I can't figure how
to get the temp of it.

The board is a Soltek Nforce2 board, and I am using one SATA drive, on
the onboard SATA raid controller. Its a promise onboard raid.

Thanks,
JH
 
Jay said:
After killing a couple IDE drives to heat in the past, I have decided
on some serious active cooling for my new SATA drive.

Its a 160gig Maxtor SATA drive. I have a hdd cooler on it, and a
120mm fan in front of it.

I would really like to see what the temperature is of the drive. In
my old EIDE drives, I would use motherboard monitor, or speedfan to
get the temp of the drive under the SMART drives.

Now my new drive doesn't show up under smart, and I can't figure how
to get the temp of it.

The board is a Soltek Nforce2 board, and I am using one SATA drive, on
the onboard SATA raid controller. Its a promise onboard raid.
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I have the same drive and get the temperature and other SMART info from
DiskCheckup (www.passmark.com). Go to Downloads and scroll down almost to
the bottom of the page. It's freeware.
 
After killing a couple IDE drives to heat in the past, I have decided
on some serious active cooling for my new SATA drive.

Its a 160gig Maxtor SATA drive. I have a hdd cooler on it, and a
120mm fan in front of it.

I would really like to see what the temperature is of the drive. In
my old EIDE drives, I would use motherboard monitor, or speedfan to
get the temp of the drive under the SMART drives.

Now my new drive doesn't show up under smart, and I can't figure how
to get the temp of it.

The board is a Soltek Nforce2 board, and I am using one SATA drive, on
the onboard SATA raid controller. Its a promise onboard raid.

Thanks,
JH
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I use a small temperature alarm from PC Power & Cooling that whistles
at 110DegF, which is a conservative temperature for every disk I've
bothered to look up the specs for. It's about $15, here's the URL;

http://www.pcpowerandcooling.com/products/alarmandaccesories/alert/index.htm

I seem to recall that SMART reporting, built into most modern disk drives,
will report the disk's temp. I only played with it once.
 
Jay said:
Nope that software doesn't work for me. Any other ideas anyone?
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Put a thermometer in there. If you're close to the critical temp your
drive life will be shortened, anyway, and if you're way safe the precise
temp doesn't matter.
 
CJT said:
Put a thermometer in there. If you're close to the critical temp your
drive life will be shortened, anyway, and if you're way safe the precise
temp doesn't matter.
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What is the critical temp?
 
Nicholas said:
What is the critical temp?
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I don't know for that particular drive, but I think most manufacturers
give temperature specs for their drives at their web sites.
 
What is the critical temp?


Hi,

it's lower than most other components inside your PC, about 50°c - 60°c.
Hard drives just don't like heat! kinda makes sense really. . .
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After killing a couple IDE drives to heat in the past, I have decided
on some serious active cooling for my new SATA drive.

Its a 160gig Maxtor SATA drive. I have a hdd cooler on it, and a
120mm fan in front of it.

I would really like to see what the temperature is of the drive. In
my old EIDE drives, I would use motherboard monitor, or speedfan to
get the temp of the drive under the SMART drives.

Now my new drive doesn't show up under smart, and I can't figure how
to get the temp of it.

The board is a Soltek Nforce2 board, and I am using one SATA drive, on
the onboard SATA raid controller. Its a promise onboard raid.

Thanks,
JH
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i use speedfan 4.09. it is a little program that is suppose to change
cpu fan speeds depending on the heat of the cpu, but i use it to
monitor my cpu, MB, and hdd temps. it is kinda basic, AND you have to
set it up the way you like. it has a small memory footprint and i can
see my cpu temp at a glance. double click on it to see all the temps
you normally monitor. you do have to manually add it into yer startup
group if you want it to load with windows though.

http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

the download for it is near the bottom
 
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