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|    Stas Mishchenkov to August Abolins    |
|    bad news for hdd?    |
|    03 Jan 23 10:00:28    |
      REPLY: 2:221/1.58@fidonet 0406da3c       MSGID: 2:460/5858 63b3d595       PID: GED+W64 1.1.5-b20170303       CHRS: CP866 2       TZUTC: 0300       RealName: Brother Rabbit       TID: hpt/w64-mvcdll 1.9 2022-07-03       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 ¯ મ¢®çëå ¬¥áâ ®¤®¢à¥¬¥®.        * Origin: Lame Users Breeding. Simferopol, Crimea. (2:460/5858)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 90/1 105/81 106/201 120/340 123/131 129/305 153/7715       SEEN-BY: 218/700 226/30 227/114 229/110 111 112 113 114 206 307 317       SEEN-BY: 229/400 424 426 428 452 470 550 664 700 266/512 282/1038       SEEN-BY: 292/854 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45 460/58 256 1124       SEEN-BY: 460/5858 633/280 712/848 5054/30       PATH: 460/5858 58 229/426           |
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