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What is the safe temperature limit for a consumer SATA hard drive?

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Mar 15, 202646379 views
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Background My personal desktop system at home has 5 SATA drives racked up inside. Recently my system started failing in odd ways like random kernel panics and I eventually traced it to random degrades on the RAID array. Sometimes I could boot, other times I couldn't and so on. After chasing softwar…

Error Output

for i in a b c d e; do
    sudo smartctl --all /dev/sd$i | grep Temperature_Celsius
done

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37 degrees should not be a problem at all. Naturally, hard drives differ in their specs, some can run hotter than the others. You should check the published specifications of the drives that you have. For example, WD Caviar Black 1TB operational tem…

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