We have just had quite a warm weekend here in the UK. As temperatures rise, often so does the likelyhood of computer failure. In my experience this happens more in the home or small office where air conditioning isn’t quite so prevalent (in the UK).
One component that doesn’t like high tempreatures is the hard disk. Enter hddtemp, a great little package to tell you how hot your disks are. It’s been around a while, but many people don’t know about it. I found myself installing it on everything and pasting in IRC, then a few others starting doing the same.
It can be run on the command line to get the current temperature, or can be used as a daemon which can provide information to other clients such as gkrellm.
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It works well, giving reasonable values.
My desktop:- alan@wopr:~$ sudo hddtemp /dev/sd[ab] Password: /dev/sda: Maxtor 6V250F0 : 43°C /dev/sdb: Maxtor 6V250F0 : 43°C Posted in Advocacy, Fun, Linux, Ubuntu 24 Comments
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