HDD internal thermistor???

[cirrus1]

This program is supposed to monitor the internal temp of hdd's (if they are on the list of supported HDD)

http://www.siguardian.com/products/hddtemperature/index.html

My IBM 60 GXP (the only one that is supported by the program) is reported to have a temp. of 43 degrees celcius.

But I have a feeling that something is wrong:

After I tried the standard freeware hddtemperature thingy, I uninstalled it and tried the shareware Sigguardian that also has S.M.A.R.T monitoring capabilities. When I started the program it complained about the hddtemperature service not being started. Nevertheless the program opened and reported the same temperature as the HDDtemperature program had done before.

as Hamlet would have said it:

"Something is rotten in the Kingdom of (insert country here)"

Also I have never heard of thermistors in HDD. Am I being ignorant here?

Thanks

 

[ralphp]

I can't answer your question about thrmistor in HDD but I don't think so. My GUESS is some software program which is monitoring either electrical connection to HD or perhaps case temp. But since I have the identical drive and saw your post I tried the free program. Temp is steady 31 C. I also have Smart Defender from Ontrack but it does not give a temperature just an alert if it is too high - they don't say what that is. My MB Hardware Monitor shows my CPU temp as 41 C with 60 C as too high. System temp is 34 C with 50 C too high. Computer is AMD 1.2 Gig and MB is Soyo SY K7-ADA. I built the system and it has run cool all the time. These temps seem to be in line with what the HD temp is. I suppose you have read about the pending law suit re the IBM 75GXP HD. Smart Defender says my HD is "healthy" but it has just started to run fast at boot until about two minutes after boot it settles down and runs fine. No clicks or anything like that. Answers to my questions about that on this forum say they don't think it is the HD but all my HD sensors are correct so I guess I will take a look inside tomorrow when it boots. A local computer radio program (hosted by computer store) told me today that they have had the same thing with IBM and that rapid rpm is a sign until it will just stop at some time. Now the question -- do you have anything similar happening?

 

[Lord Evermore]

Some hard drives do have thermal monitoring which can be accessed by software.

 

[cirrus1]

<< I can't answer your question about thrmistor in HDD but I don't think so. My GUESS is some software program which is monitoring either electrical connection to HD or perhaps case temp. But since I have the identical drive and saw your post I tried the free program. Temp is steady 31 C. I also have Smart Defender from Ontrack but it does not give a temperature just an alert if it is too high - they don't say what that is. My MB Hardware Monitor shows my CPU temp as 41 C with 60 C as too high. System temp is 34 C with 50 C too high. Computer is AMD 1.2 Gig and MB is Soyo SY K7-ADA. I built the system and it has run cool all the time. These temps seem to be in line with what the HD temp is. I suppose you have read about the pending law suit re the IBM 75GXP HD. Smart Defender says my HD is "healthy" but it has just started to run fast at boot until about two minutes after boot it settles down and runs fine. No clicks or anything like that. Answers to my questions about that on this forum say they don't think it is the HD but all my HD sensors are correct so I guess I will take a look inside tomorrow when it boots. A local computer radio program (hosted by computer store) told me today that they have had the same thing with IBM and that rapid rpm is a sign until it will just stop at some time. Now the question -- do you have anything similar happening? >>



No, my drive runs perfectly fine, and I haven't noticed any errors (yet)

 

[cbuchach]

Yes, most hardrives today have temperature probes which comprise part of the SMART system of modern hardrives. I use a utility called DTemp on my IBM 120GXP and on a friend's 'Cuda IV to access and report on each drive's temperature. My dual 60GXP's are in a RAID config which DTemp can't however access. IBM's DOS-based "Feature Tools" however can access the temp, so I know that these drives have functioning termal diodes as well.

You can grab DTemp here.

Oh, and my drive temps range from ~42 C to 32 C depending on room temp and which drive I am reading as certain drives receive much better airflow.