How to: Monitor my HD Temps?

rocarpen · Post by **rocarpen** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 1:51 pm

Hey folks,

I've just put together my first PC, and am looking to monitor the temperatures of my hard drives (1x120Gb 7200.7 PATA, 2x80GB 7K250 SATA in RAID 0). At the moment their sitting on sorbothane sleds (tip of the hat to Ralf) in my BQE's drive trays, with an intake fan (Evercool 120MM AL12025 Aluminum @ 12v) blasting 79 CFM over them.

Before I start lowering the fan voltages via a Fanmate, I'd like to get a reading on the temps as they are now. Searching this forum turned me on to DTemp, and it's giving me a reading for my 7200.7 (30 degrees celcius - nice), but nothing for my SATA drives. Not surprising, since the app hasn't been updated since August 2002!

So: can folks here recommend a reliable method for measuring the temps of my drives, both Parallel and SATA?

Thanks!

bobdoe · Post by **bobdoe** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 1:54 pm

Speedfan or Motherboard Monitor.

rocarpen · Post by **rocarpen** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 2:09 pm

My mobo is an ABit AI7 with uGuru. I 'll try playing with the settings there (though I don't know of any hard drive related controls being offered. Otherwise Speedfan and Motherboard Monitor are recommendations I'll follow up on.

Joe DeFuria · Post by **Joe DeFuria** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 2:24 pm

Hey rocarpen,

How do you find the northbridge fan (noise wise) on the AI7? Can you turn it down low enough (or off completely) and still run with stability?

rocarpen · Post by **rocarpen** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 2:35 pm

Some solutions I dug up:

Active SMART
HDD Temperature
SMARTDefender

... but of course, none of them support drivesin RAID setups (although they each claim to be working on this feature).

rocarpen · Post by **rocarpen** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 2:40 pm

Joe DeFuria wrote:Hey rocarpen,

How do you find the northbridge fan (noise wise) on the AI7? Can you turn it down low enough (or off completely) and still run with stability?

I actually havn't played around with any settings in uGuru yet, and since this is not only my first 'silent' PC, but my first PC period, I'm a poor judge of comparative noise. I'll be able to get a better idea for the loudness of various components once my Zalman 7000 HSF arrives, and once I also install my Fanmates on the Evercool's. Regarding turning it down though, I can say right now that I probably won't, as I've an eye towards overclocking this P4 2.4 to 3.0 or 3.2 GHz.

Ana · Post by **Ana** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 9:35 pm

I'm pretty sure HD temp info should be supported on the RAID Chip itself, because of the
2=1 nature of the RAID 0 setup. The system only sees one hard drive, so the chip would
be required to show one temp, too.