Actually there is a program that will. It uses the SMART technology to obtain the hard drive's temperature. I had it installed while I was running XP Pro but deleted it when I upgraded to XP x64.
As I remember it, it was called something like EZ Fan, or something Fan. Sorry but that's about the best I can do at this point. It is shareware and available on the net.
Found it. It's called Speed Fan, originally designed to control the speed of the cooling fans but also reports hard drive temps. That is if your drives have SMART technology. Most later model hard drives do.
Found it. It's called Speed Fan, originally designed to control the speed of the cooling fans but also reports hard drive temps. That is if your drives have SMART technology. Most later model hard drives do.
However I did not find it reading the TEMP the values on this field are all zeros from my drives on my GX110. The Bios in Most of the Optiplexes Supports SMART. Aka the GXa,GX1,GX100,GX110,GX150,GX200,GX240,GX260,GX270,GX280.
Temperature monitoring may be something that was "added" or "optional" as part of the standard.
Reliability Predictors Note that (TEMPERATURE) isnt in here.
Excessive bad sectors Grown defect list, media defects, handling damage Number of defects, growth rate
S.M.A.R.T. is an acronym for Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology.
S.M.A.R.T. is an industry standard for monitoring and reporting fault conditions in a peripheral storage device, whether from damage or normal wear-and-tear. S.M.A.R.T. is intended to decrease the chance of data loss by giving adequate warning to these conditions, but it is no replacement for good disaster-recovery planning.
How S.M.A.R.T. Work?
A S.M.A.R.T. drive monitors the internal performance of the motors, media, heads, and electronics of the drive, while our software monitors the overall reliability status of the drive. The reliability status is determined through the analysis of the drive's internal performance level and the comparison of internal performance levels to predetermined threshold limits.
S.M.A.R.T.-capable drives can monitor several key performance factors to assess reliability and predict an impending device failure. However, S.M.A.R.T. cannot possibly detect all impending failures. S.M.A.R.T. should be treated as an advisory service, and not a substitute for regularly backing-up your files.
Keeping your data safe can only be ensured by making back-up copies on a regular basis. The S.M.A.R.T. features of any device should not be considered a substitute for planning-ahead.
I had no problem, it read my WD Sata drive and my two Fuji SCSI drives. It never could give me a read out on my fan speed but I found the temp indicators reassuring. Besides the three drives I'm also running a nVidia FX 3400 w\258mb, two processors and 3 GB of RAM and wanted to make sure that the case was cooled enough not to cause damage to the hard drives.
Sorry it's not working for you. Possibly it's not detecting your chipset properly, if I remember correctly it gets most of it's info from the SMBus.
Not running it right now as I'm still sorting out some minor issues with x64 and audio.
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hdFatBoy2003
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Actually there is a program that will. It uses the SMART technology to obtain the hard drive's temperature. I had it installed while I was running XP Pro but deleted it when I upgraded to XP x64.
As I remember it, it was called something like EZ Fan, or something Fan. Sorry but that's about the best I can do at this point. It is shareware and available on the net.
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hdFatBoy2003
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Found it. It's called Speed Fan, originally designed to control the speed of the cooling fans but also reports hard drive temps. That is if your drives have SMART technology. Most later model hard drives do.
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
hdFatBoy2003
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July 6th, 2005 01:00
... actually the HD stands for Harley Davidson, I ride a Harley Davidson Fatboy 2003 anniversary edition.
Glad I could help!
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An interesting program.
However I did not find it reading the TEMP the values on this field are all zeros from my drives on my GX110. The Bios in Most of the Optiplexes Supports SMART. Aka the GXa,GX1,GX100,GX110,GX150,GX200,GX240,GX260,GX270,GX280.
Temperature monitoring may be something that was "added" or "optional" as part of the standard.
Reliability Predictors Note that (TEMPERATURE) isnt in here.
Excessive bad sectors
Grown defect list, media defects, handling damage
Number of defects, growth rate
Excessive run-out
Noisy bearings, motor, handling damage
Run-out, bias force diagnostics
Excessive soft errors
Crack/broken head, contamination
High retries, ECC involves
Motor failure, bearings
Drive not ready, no platter spin, handling damage
Spin-up retries, spin-up time
Drive not responding, no connect
Bad electronics module
None, typically catastrophic
Bad servo positioning
High servo errors, handling damage
Seek errors, calibration retries
Head failure, resonance
High soft errors, servo retries, handling damage
Read error rate, servo error rate
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/opgx110/
S.M.A.R.T. is an acronym for Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology.
S.M.A.R.T. is an industry standard for monitoring and reporting fault conditions in a peripheral storage device, whether from damage or normal wear-and-tear. S.M.A.R.T. is intended to decrease the chance of data loss by giving adequate warning to these conditions, but it is no replacement for good disaster-recovery planning.
How S.M.A.R.T. Work?
A S.M.A.R.T. drive monitors the internal performance of the motors, media, heads, and electronics of the drive, while our software monitors the overall reliability status of the drive. The reliability status is determined through the analysis of the drive's internal performance level and the comparison of internal performance levels to predetermined threshold limits.
S.M.A.R.T.-capable drives can monitor several key performance factors to assess reliability and predict an impending device failure. However, S.M.A.R.T. cannot possibly detect all impending failures. S.M.A.R.T. should be treated as an advisory service, and not a substitute for regularly backing-up your files.
Keeping your data safe can only be ensured by making back-up copies on a regular basis. The S.M.A.R.T. features of any device should not be considered a substitute for planning-ahead.
More detailed about S.M.A.R.T. technology you can read at Quantum hard disk manufacture company website archive.
http://web.archive.org/web/20000612020703/http://www.quantum.com/src/whitepapers/wp_smart_toc.htm
hdFatBoy2003
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July 9th, 2005 00:00
I had no problem, it read my WD Sata drive and my two Fuji SCSI drives. It never could give me a read out on my fan speed but I found the temp indicators reassuring. Besides the three drives I'm also running a nVidia FX 3400 w\258mb, two processors and 3 GB of RAM and wanted to make sure that the case was cooled enough not to cause damage to the hard drives.
Sorry it's not working for you. Possibly it's not detecting your chipset properly, if I remember correctly it gets most of it's info from the SMBus.
Not running it right now as I'm still sorting out some minor issues with x64 and audio.
speedstep
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July 9th, 2005 01:00
It reads from SMART just fine.
But on my system there is not any reading for temperature.
Still its a free program and so its worth playing with I guess.
LOL