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Thread ID: 50949 2004-11-07 02:36:00 Monitoring SATA hard drive temperatures alphazulusixeightniner (185) Press F1
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288777 2004-11-07 02:36:00 Sorry for the newbie question but how do you monitor the temps of a SATA drive?

I've just bought a new Western Digital Raptor 36Gb and SMART is enabled in the BIOS but Everest Home Edition doesn't have anything showing under the sensors.

Any other programs that can monitor the temps? The SATA controller is on the motherboard.

Thanks :)
alphazulusixeightniner (185)
288778 2004-11-07 02:48:00 im not too sure because i dont have SATA drives but have you tried motherboard monitor? does it have that feature? or maybe Hmonitor which has hdd temp monitoring Prescott (11)
288779 2004-11-07 03:07:00 I dont think u can as it isnt wired to anything that can take the temp. I use a SATA here but dont have anything to monitor it either.

Or u cld try / email the maker of the SATA themselves.
Spacemannz (808)
288780 2004-11-07 05:16:00 > I dont think u can as it isnt wired to anything that can take the temp. I use a SATA here but dont have anything to monitor it either.

Yeah but it's very similiar to an IDE drive and it uses SMART so it must have some self monitoring technology on it which would send the information down the SATA cable into the motherboard.

MBM might be able to do it, but no idea what options to configure.
alphazulusixeightniner (185)
288781 2004-11-07 05:55:00 Isnt MBM dead? no longer made / updated.

I think smart is just a way of telling u when and if its going to fail. Nothing else.
Spacemannz (808)
288782 2004-11-07 06:22:00 yea it is not being made anymore, but the latest version is the best/last one he made, still worth a shot. Prescott (11)
288783 2004-11-09 00:46:00 This program might monitor SATA. http://www.hddtemp.com/ but its only a trial for 30 days, I think it is. Spacemannz (808)
288784 2004-11-09 01:06:00 Just found this free hdd monitoring program and it supports SMART.

http://www.panterasoft.com

HDD Health v2.1 Build 159
Spacemannz (808)
288785 2004-11-09 03:39:00 Nope, sorry neither of these programs can pick the drive up either. alphazulusixeightniner (185)
288786 2004-11-09 03:41:00 hdd health should. I installed it. It picks up both the hdds, tells u everything the brand/serial/the temp/the firmware. Well everything to do with the hdd. Spacemannz (808)
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