Hddtemp

hddtemp is a small utility (daemonizable) that gives you the temperature of your hard drive by reading S.M.A.R.T. information (for drives that support this feature).

Installation

Sync and install with pacman:

# pacman -S hddtemp

Usage

Hddtemp can be invoked with the drive as the argument:

# hddtemp /dev/sd[x]

Where x is the drive.

Daemon

Running the daemon gives you the possibility to access the temperature via an TCP/IP request, so you could use this in order to check the temperature from outside, or within some scripts.

Once hddtemp has been installed, standard systemctl procedures work to start the daemon:

# systemctl start hddtemp

To start it on boot, enable it:

# systemctl enable hddtemp

Note: Arguments to hddtemp are directly given in /usr/lib/systemd/system/hddtemp.service. This is especially important if you have multiple disks, because in the default configuration only /dev/sda is monitored. Here is how to add other drives:

• Change the ExecStart line in /usr/lib/systemd/system/hddtemp.service adding the drives you want to monitor, e.g.:

ExecStart=/usr/bin/hddtemp -dF /dev/sda /dev/sdb

• Reload systemd's unit files:

# systemctl --system daemon-reload

• Restart hddtemp service:

# systemctl restart hddtemp

Usage

Another way to get the temperature is by connecting to the daemon which is listening on port 7634.

$ telnet localhost 7634

Or with netcat:

$ nc localhost 7634

Refer to the manpage for information like supported drives, logging, etc.

$ man hddtemp

Monitors

Hddtemp can be easily integrated with system monitors like Conky, the sensors-applet for GNOME Panel or the xfce4-sensors-plugin for Xfce Panel.

See also

lm sensors