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is my system drive getting too hot?



On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 08:12:41PM -0500, Stephen Adler wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> I spent a bunch of time setting up smartd on my system at work last week 
> and now I'm getting nightly e-mails regarding my disk drives. (the 
> latest one is cut and pasted into the e-mail.) notice sda, and the 
> temperatures over 100. Is this something I need to worry about? The sda 
> is a WD drive, while all the other drives are segate.

Tomorrow morning, go put a finger on it. If it's much warmer
than the disk next to it, assume it's going bad.

Any logged read/write problems with it?

-dsr-


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