HWMonitor doesnt show hard drive temps

I upgraded to vista home premium x64 and installed two 7k320 hard drives in raid 0 and hwmonitor64 1.12 does not show my hard drive temps anymore (hard drives non existent in hwmonitor 1.12). Any ideas?

EDIT: I just checked in device manager and my hard drive is just "volume 0" no model name like before. Is this because I turned on raid 0? so how can i configure hwmonitor to monitor temperature for a raid 0 volume?

 

Yes this happens quite often. The RAID drivers screw up the temperature reading.

Try updating your Intel Storage Matrix manager

 

yep did that no difference. So is there a way to monitor temps for raid arrays?

 

nope, no temps for raid setup...

 

so there is no way of knowing if my drives are overheating?!

 

Well heres one way:

 

Not for Intel RAID.

 

that looks like the dell i used to have... lol

 

well the truth is... external hdd can withstand the harsh conditions but laptops in most cases the cause of the fire is the battery.

Even the number one manufacturer of batteries in Japan has a design problem in batteries.

Thankfully they already fixed and traced most of the sources.

 

if i am not wrong, i dont think ALL hard drives come with a temp sensor on them.

i say that because the 320gb fujitsu that came with my hp dv7t recently does not show up in hwmonitor. however, i added another 320gb western digital and that one comes up just fine.

so i think it all depends on the model. again, i could be wrong, but in my case, 1 drive shows up and 1 does not. i have not done any tweaks to get it to happen - hwmonitor changes (default settings/install), no updated drivers, nada.

 

^ Your HDDs are not in Intel RAID. The DV7t doesn't support RAID anyway.

You can try out HD Tune or Everest to monitor.

 

RAID or not, shouldn't hwmonitor just show the 2 drives and their temps if this was the case? I will try out HD Tune - thanks for the info.

 

One cannot view temps when HDDs are RAIDed on an Intel RAID Controller using Intel MSM.

 

HWmonitor can only project what windows can see.

Remember the RAID controller will turn your drives into a single drive which is what windows will see.

My Adaptec SAS array doesnt show the temps either.

 

I'm guessing with the 2 hard drives seen as 1 under raid, the temp sensors gets confused and the only reading you're going to get is 0.

Cause that's what i'm getting.

 

Mt HD's on my G50Vt are setup in raid and I cant see the temps on it either. So we must loose that feature in raid.

 

The RAID drivers/controller do not relay the SMART monitor info

 

It is an issue mainly with Intel RAID controllers. Yesterday, I setup RAID 0 on a MSI motherboard with a VIA RAID Controller, and it displayed all the SMART info and temps. K-Tron also posted earlier, that he is able to view the temps of his RAID 0 7K200s in the D900K, which also has a VIA RAID controller.



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