I've been doing this for a while now and I thought some of you might be interested. It's really simple. Just go to the command line and type "sudo apt-get install hddtemp". It'll ask if you want it to be run as a daemon, but I declined-- choose however you want, it doesn't matter. Now all you need to do is run "sudo hddtemp /dev/sda" (or /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, /dev/sdb, etc...) and it'll give you the hard drive's temperature. I've even run it in a loop dumping the result into a csv file so I could import the result into OpenOffice and get a chart.
I've managed to keep my data drive at around 30 degrees celsius.
Measuring HDD Temp in Ubuntu
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