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In recent years, the fossil-fuel industry and its allies have pushed the notion that personal choices are to blame for the climate crisis, while at the same time lobbying for policies to ensure their products – and profits – continue to expand. Fortunately, the vast majority of hard drive manufacturers publish technical specifications or data sheets on the Internet, free for anyone to access. The recommended temperature limits should form part of these specifications so we can be confident we’re running our drives within the temperature range they were designed for. Finding the model number of your hard drive

A cheaper solution is to try to maintain a breeze through the room, possibly with the assistance of electric fans. If you live in a particularly hot environment, it may be that you even need to power off your computer systems during the mid-day heat and only use them at night. I know this isn’t an attractive prospect but it’s better than your hardware becoming damaged and it might provide a stop-gap until proper cooling and ventilation options are on the table. Summary Climate scientists are clear that the world must transition away from fossil fuels immediately if it has any chance of avoiding the most catastrophic climate effects. We can see that smartctl is reporting the drive is currently running at 45 degrees Celsius, again, well below the manufacturer’s stated maximum temperature of 60. What causes a hard drive to overheat? We’ll start with the usual suspect. Whenever I’ve come across a drive that’s running too hot, ninety percent of the time, it’s due to airflow, in one way or another. Like many components inside the modern computer system, the hard drive radiates heat through its metal body and this is how it remains cool. If the air surrounding the hard drive is already warm, it makes it much more difficult for this heat radiation or dissipation to take place. It’s for this reason that airflow is so important. Simply put, once a hot hard drive has radiated its heat and made the air around it warmer, this warm air then needs to be moved away, making way for cooler air so that the process can continue. So, launch PowerShell and type “Get-PhysicalDisk | Select-Object Manufacturer, Model”, then press “Enter”.

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