Temperature Control

Drive temperature greatly impacts its operability. Overheating may cause a fall of performance and reliability, or reduce disk lifetime. For example, maximum working temperature for the Western Digital's Caviar series of hard drives is 55░╤ (131░F), but reducing this temperature to 45░C (113░F) results in twofold (!) increase of reliability. If a drive has an internal thermal sensor, Hard Drive Inspector (HDI) will be able to monitor disk temperature.

Check temperature every à seconds. The option defines the interval between temperature checks performed by HDI. The minimal allowed interval is 10 seconds.

Critical temperature. When disk temperature exceeds this value, HDI will perform actions defined by the Actions at Critical Temperature group of options. Maximum working temperature differs for different drives but the most common value is 55░C (131░F).

Show all temperatures in one window. If this option is enabled, temperature information for all drives will be combined in one tooltip window (see example below) instead of displaying separate temperature icon for each drive.

Actions at Critical Temperature

This group of options defines the actions that HDI will perform when disk temperature exceeds critical value.

1. Blink tray icon and show message.
2. Play sound warning.
3. Put computer on standby (all drives will be stopped).
4. Send network message warning. If this check box is selected, then in case of drive overheating HDI will send a warning message to a remote computer using standard net send command. Click the Settingsà button to enter the name of the remote computer.
5. Send e-mail message warning. If this option is enabled, then in case of drive overheating HDI will send a warning message to the specified e-mail address. Click the Settingsà button to enter the address and other necessary e-mail parameters.