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Are there any programs that can track temperature for different vendors? I'd love to run a few ssds through a benchmark and have hard data for thermal data.
by jagermo 4y ago
Are there any programs that can track temperature for different vendors? I'd love to run a few ssds through a benchmark and have hard data for thermal data.
- k8sToGo 4y agoYou can read the temperature from SMART interface.
- mschuster91 4y agoOnly if the interface exposes it. USB ones in my experience outright don't support it or mess it up somewhere in the chain; the only place I got SMART reliably to work was with a direct SATA attachment to a controller.
- Marsymars 4y agoIf you have a desktop PC and want to make the process of connecting external drives to SATA for this purpose a bit easier, you can add an eSATAp bracket to your PC.
- yair99dd 4y agoopenhardwareMonitor https://openhardwaremonitor.org/ https://openhardwaremonitor.org/ I'm windows
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoTemperature data is part of SAMRT so there's a plethora of utilities on any OS. For windows the best is HWInfo, IMHO. Ideally, for a proper test, I'd expect thermocouples placed on the controller and not just rely on the sensor data provided by the SSD as that could be very misleading depending on where the senor is and how the raw sensor data is processed.
- jagermo 4y agoarg, you are right, smart would be the easiest way to go. And the thermocouples are a great idea. I'll see what I can whip up
- jeffbee 4y agosudo nvme smart-log -H /dev/nvme0 Will show all temperature sensors on the device, there are usually several. It also will show how often the composite temperature crossed the warning and critical thresholds in the lifetime of the device, and how long the device spent above those thresholds.
- agapon 4y agoYou can also slap a thermal sensor to the SSD. Or use contactless thermometer.
- klysm 4y agoThermal cameras are surprisingly cheap now