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Old 19-Apr-2009, 13:13
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Default Re: HDD SMART Temperature

In case anyone else was trying to figure this out, here is what I found. The smartd temperature reports are a not right for many drives. The number shown is actually a composite of several temperatures.

Several sources on the net people suggest -I 190 and -I 194 as you suggest. However I did find that the -w flag seems to track temperature changes more accurately so I ended up using -w 4,45,55. I believe this will only record changes >4 degrees, and log an alarm at 45. My full config ( /etc/smartd.conf) per drive is:

/dev/sda -a -o on -S on -s (S/../.././02||L/../../6/03) -I 190 -I 194 -w 4,45,55

I have it set to do a short test each day at 2AM and a long test Saturday at 3AM.

I found this article to be very helpful: Monitoring Hard Disks with SMART

Thanks for the help.
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