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jester
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Wasn't sure whether to put this in hardware or not, anyways, the following might be useful for laptop owners or people running servers (cronjob + mail?)
| Code: | hddtemp /dev/sd{a,b,c}
/dev/sda: WDC WD1500ADFD-00NLR1: 30°C
/dev/sdb: WDC WD1500HLFS-01G6U0: 28°C
/dev/sdc: WDC WD6401AALS-00L3B2: 29°C |
needs to be run as root / sudo, letters in the brackets correspond to the hdds you have - in my case sda, sdb, sdc
* found on the arch forums
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| Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2025 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Do all HDD's have temp gauges?
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Lord.DragonFly.of.Dawn
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most modern ones do.
i think they became standard around 99...
if the hard drive supports Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) hddtemp can tell you the temperature (if a temperature sensoe is also included)
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Sweet.
Gonna have to try that out tonight.
Thanks !
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This is a good thing..outstanding even.
I have pulled SATA drives out of OEM.s, and one hot swap I had where the fan died, so hot I almost dropped them.
Even newer 7200rpn PATA drives can get quite warm if they don't have adequate ventilation.
In either case this shorten the life at the least.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2025 9:33 am Post subject: |
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JP, were you root or sudo'd?
| jester wrote: | | needs to be run as root / sudo, letters in the brackets correspond to the hdds you have - in my case sda, sdb, sdc |
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Lord.DragonFly.of.Dawn
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| @jp: hddtemp is a utility that is often not included in distributions by default. you will probably have to install it from your repositories.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2025 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | $ hddtemp /dev/sda
/dev/sda: open: Permission denied |
the above (run as user) seems to bear out Lord's comment
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| jester wrote: | | Code: | $ hddtemp /dev/sda
/dev/sda: open: Permission denied |
the above (run as user) seems to bear out Lord's comment |
Actually i think you meant Lynch... My comment was "is it installed?" (which in your case it was but in JP's it appears it was not or was not in $PATH)
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Lord.DragonFly.of.Dawn
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| hmm.... my bad. although your error did show that hddtemp was installed.... thats probably what confused me.
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I figured it wasn't installed in a directory in the user's PATH.
It is in some, like PCLinuxOS; it's in /usr/bin as well as /usr/sbin.
In some distros it may not be.
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