Subj : bad news for hdd? To : August Abolins From : Stas Mishchenkov Date : Tue Jan 03 2023 10:00 am Hi August! 01 ï­¢ 23 10:38, August Abolins -> Wayne Harris: WH>> When I work in 31C, I am not very happy. If your HDD is WH>> like me, then, yes, that's bad news for it. :-) Happy new WH>> year. AA> I'm reading the following as common info: AA> "HDD Overheating Symptoms AA> "The normal temperature of a hard drive is from 40Cø to 50Cø AA> when it is in work. The temperature of HDD should not be more AA> than 70 Cø. An IDE hard drive is usually from 30 Cø to 50 Cø. AA> It probably causes data loss or even worse it may damage the AA> hard drive when its temperature is up to 100 Cø. Meanwhile, the colder your drive is, the longer it will live. I try not to warm my drives over 35øC. [fido@brorabbit ~]$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda |grep -i temp 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 076 001 000 Old_age Always - 24 (Min/Max 20/24) 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 076 057 000 Old_age Always - 24 (Min/Max 20/26) [fido@brorabbit ~]$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdb |grep -i temp 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 028 032 000 Old_age Always - 28 (Min/Max 21/32) [fido@brorabbit ~]$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdc |grep -i temp 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 117 094 000 Old_age Always - 30 AA> Further to my enlightenment: AA> C:\Documents and Settings\User>chkdsk AA> The type of the file system is NTFS. AA> Volume label is SYSTEM. AA> WARNING! F parameter not specified. AA> Running CHKDSK in read-only mode. AA> CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)... AA> File verification completed. AA> CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)... [...skipped...] AA> Index verification completed. AA> Errors found. CHKDSK cannot continue in read-only mode. It only says that these files are currently open. This is normal. Try HDDscan. https://hddscan.com/download.html Have nice nights. Stas Mishchenkov. --- ‘ ¬¥æ ®«¥­ï ¬®¦¥â § ­¨¬ âì ¤® âàñå ¯ àª®¢®ç­ëå ¬¥áâ ®¤­®¢à¥¬¥­­®. * Origin: Lame Users Breeding. Simferopol, Crimea. (2:460/5858) .