Heat can accumulate within computer systems due to a clogged fan, failure of air conditioning, operating more drives than the cooling system can handle, and so on. Unfortunately, these conditions can go completely unnoticed until a failure occurs. The resulting stress can lead to unexpected failures and even data loss. Because of the essential nature of today's workstations and servers, such risks are unacceptable for many users.
More info:
hxxp://www.hddtemperature.com/

Cool. Will try.

Thanks,
Will

I couldn't find a screen shot :(

thx .. gonna take a look !!

Thanks Fisher ;)

I will check this one

oh well my hard drives dont support temp.

or so it says ;)

A qualified guess is that Hdd Temperature is depending upon SMART-functions in the drive. Most new drives (the last three years or so) are equipped with SMART. You havent disabled it in BIOS?

SMART is enabled. Yea thats what I though. Thats why I said thats what it said. ;)

So I guess it dont like my western digital 80gb 8mb cache drive.

damn, my hdd is running @ 130 degrees F average, now I know I need a new case / cpu cooler / psu

My 20GB WD spare is not supported it seems. I'll wait until I get my "not IBM but Hitachi" 60GB Deathstar :P back from repair and try that. Looks interesting. I had a temp monitor prog in win98 that sucked up most of the resources. No wonder it ran hot! Duh!

This thing brings my CPU usage (on a P4 1.6GHz processor) from 5% to 100%. Be careful with this. It said my HD was running at 26 degrees Celsius.

it says 50 C ...

based on this handy dandy calculator
http://www.futuresource.com/weather/cfcalc.asp

it says thast 122F ...is that bad?

i don't think so jessica, mine was around your temps when i used it last and i haven't had any problems with my hdd, cpu's can get up to like 90C before they quit working, so it's probably somewhere around the same for an hdd, though you would probably start having data corruption before then

but if it's working fine, don't worry about it :)