Measuring HDD Temperature

[MyHDDIsTooHot]

Hi guys,

I was looking for a good tool to monitor the temperature of my hard drive and scope the result over a longer period of time. A friend recommended Argus Monitor. It seems to be great, especially because it also measures CPU and GPU temperatures and can warn you if the HDD is about to suffer a hardware failure.

Before installing, I wanted to know what you guys think of ArgusMonitor or if you know a better tool?


Regards.

[stroyal]

I'd say just about any monitoring software that can record would be fine.

Any software uses the sensor in the HD, the hard drive sensor will decide how accurate the readings are.

Most computers have a BIOS program called S.M.A.R.T that monitors HDs and warns of a crash, and is surprisingly accurate, but not perfect.
I am not familiar with ArgusMonitor, but my guess is the HD failure monitor is S.M.A.R.T. and may only monitor the built in S.M.A.R.T.

S.M.A.R.T. can be purchased separately also.

One other thing, Google did a study on Hard drive failure (because they have millions of them).
They wouldn't say what brands failed the most, but surprisingly heat was not the killer that it was thought to be before the study.

Massive Google hard drive survey turns up very interesting things
That being said, I still try to keep mine cool.

[MyHDDIsTooHot]

I know of the S.M.A.R.T. and at the ArgusMonitor site they also cite the Google study you mentioned.

Temperature monitoring is just for the fun of it (and maybe to tune my fan speeds to get my rig a little quieter), but even though the hard disks do record changes in their S.M.A.R.T. attributes, you need a program that checks them and displays a warning if some of the values tagged as critical reaches its threshold. Argus Monitor can also display information even before the thresholds are reached -- so it seems to be a nice tool for me and I think I will give it a try (it's free for 30 days, so nothing to loose ).

[stroyal]

Most of us play with computers for fun, so that is understandable. I,ve downloaded my share of utilities.

When you are overclocking temperature monitoring it is serious tool.