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If you’ve ever touched a hard drive (either internal or external) after it’s been running for some time, you’ve probably noticed that it’s quite warm. Being a mechanical component, we would expect a hard drive to generate some heat during normal operation. Like most computer components, however, the hard drive is susceptible to damage should it be allowed to run at extreme temperatures for an extended period of time. As a long-time data-hoarder with dozens of hard drives, I’ve become accustomed to the fact that hard drives can feel hot to the touch and that most of the time it’s nothing to worry about. For people new to data-hoarding, or even just casual PC users, however, it’s often not clear whether or not their hard drive is running too hot and potentially being damaged. To clear up a few questions I’ve seen posted on the various data-hoarding forums recently about hard drive temperatures, I thought I would write this post. Hopefully, it will either put your mind at ease or guide you in lowering your drive’s temperature. What’s the safe maximum temperature of a hard drive? There’s no way to directly access the hard drive’s temperature under Linux. Instead, we must query the disk’s SMART interface to get this information. My tool of choice is “smartctl”. Not only does smartctl let me query the drive’s temperature, it lets me access a whole host of SMART information that’s really useful. If your PSU is cheap or unbranded, then honestly, I would just replace it regardless. Even if it doesn’t resolve your hard drive over-temperature problem, it’ll save you countless headaches down the road. If your PC is running 24/7 in an unventilated room, without air conditioning, in downtown Bombay, then it’s no surprise that it may suffer from over-heating. Similarly, if you’re using your laptop for hours on end, inside a hot car, it’ll probably struggle to keeps its components cool.Before we can confidently say that a drive is running too hot or not, we need to understand its design characteristics. Some drives are designed to operate at relatively high temperatures quite comfortably, while others need to be kept cool. Energy bills in New Orleans are rising at the fastest rate in almost two decades, and outpacing increases in the rest of the country. People with multiple sclerosis (MS) may experience paroxysmal symptoms. These are episodes of symptoms that can occur very suddenly, and often only last a few seconds or minutes. Symptoms may reoccur throughout the day.