My HDD is reaching a very high temperature, aprox. 50°, while using Ubuntu. On Windows it only gets as high as 40° and it causes the touchpad to get hot.  What can I do to determine what is causing this behaviour and how can I cool off my drive?  My notebook is a Toshiba A300-2D4 with an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 graphics card.
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I have 4 hard disk drives that have temperatures which go beyond the recommended 50 degrees (Celsius). (I have several Samsung Spinpoint F3 which are 1Tb each and they do have good temps, between 32 and 35 degrees. That's normal for me. But in this case, 50+ is not normal.)  I have already read the question and answer provided , but none of the solutions  helped. What tools can I use or what terminal commands should I execute to lower the temperature of these drives?  And on a similar note, if I were to use a method similar to , how would I know which hard drive I am reading?   Where can I check to see which HDD is related to, for example, /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/link_power_management_policy ?  I have already tested powertop, hddtemp, disks and others to check and try to lower the temp with no luck.
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I've seen a lot of posts about disabling the throttling temperatures but none regarding setting them.  I have an Acer V17 Nitro, i7 laptop and it's CPU temperature reaches 95°C before throttling. It's a very powerful laptop, crippled by a bad cooling system. I already undervolted by 70mV and disabled hyper boost.   Currently, I have to go into Power Options and adjust Maximum CPU Frequency between 40% and 80% to keep the temperatures under 80°C. But this depends on the application. And I have to do this manually for each application I'm using.  Ironically, some applications (especially Fortnite) will run just fine with the CPU frequency set to 30-40% with the temperatures only rising to 80°C, while others will run at the same temperatures with the maximum frequency set to 80%. It just depends on how the code was written and how many cores are being used.  I know the throttling temperature is set to 95°C for the CPU, but even if it doesn't melt the CPU, it can cause a lot of other issues, like melting the case.  I would prefer to lower the throttling temperature to something like 80°C. This way I don't have to adjust the maximum CPU frequency by hand every time.  Is there a way to do this from the BIOS? From Windows? Via a third party app?
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How do I get the CPU temperature?
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The problem is that my computer suddenly freezes, the mouse and keyboard halt and nothing works.  So I checked the CPU temperature, and I found that under BIOS H/W monitoring  CPU Temperature -&gt; 94+ -105 Deg C Internal Temperature -&gt; 45+ Deg C Remote Temperature  -&gt; 45+ Deg C   Here are computer specs :  Intel Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz Windows xp sp3 1 GB RAM 256MB Graphics card   I don't have very many programs installed except Visual Studio 2010 , some multimedia players, etc.  Is it OK? Do I need to change thermal paste again?
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I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 on an Acer Aspire One 722. Whenever I'm on battery power I get a clicking sound from my hard drive every 5 seconds or so (this does not happen when the laptop is plugged in). I'm dual booting with Windows 7 and I don't get the clicking sound in Windows.   The clicking sound stops when I run the command:sudo hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda   Also, according to:sudo smartctl -H /dev/sda my hard drive is healthy.   Is this clicking sound something I can just ignore? Or is it a serious problem and will it eventually damage my computer? If so, how would I fix it?  I have tried adding hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda to my /etc/rc.local file, but I still run into the clicking problem if my computer boots while plugged in and is then unplugged. Also, I'm finding this fix to be unreliable. Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not. Is this a good solution and is there a better way of doing this? Also, would running my laptop with a -B value of 254 have any negative effects? (I read somewhere about a lower level protecting the hard drive from bumps)
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I'm installing ubuntu onto a new laptop with 24gb SSD and a 500gb HDD. I wanted to put / and swap onto the SSD and /home onto the HDD. Is there anything I shouldn't use ext4 for?  I do not ever intend to dual boot. Ubuntu only.
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I have an HPdv6t quad notebook with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11.04 dual booted, both OSes installed on a partitioned Crucial 128 GB SSD.  I replaced my optical drive with the HDD that came with the computer which I use for most of my storage.   Same question as  but for Windows 7 - I want to keep the HDD drive spun down when I don't need it.  Occasionally it will spin down on its own but only after about 10 min of not accessing it, and then it spins back up on its own shortly afterwards for no apparent reason.  As an aside, the reason I want to do this is to prolong the life of the HDD and save battery power.  Will it even make much of a difference on either account?  How significant is power consumption of a spinning HDD compared to, say, power consumption of the screen or of the sandy bridges integrated graphics?
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Got a problem with my laptop manufacturer's partition. It's FAT32-formatted and fails under same curcumstances as for topic starter at . It seems like vfat got a problem working with x-gvfs-show parameter. Also, I seek for more "painless" solution then "format-and-refill", because this one is created by the manufacturer and (as far as I know) got specific structure adapted for BIOS.
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This morning I went to turn on a family member's laptop to find the SMART message displaying that the laptop's hard disk is close to failure and needs replacing.   The laptop is around 2 years old now and I have now backed everything up just in case of this 'imminent' failure.   I ran the HDTune programme to test the amount of damaged blocks there are in the hard disk.  This resulted in 24/2500 blocks (1%)  To me, (someone who doesn't know a great deal about computer hardware) this doesn't seem like a very large amount and I am not entirely sure where to go from here.   Shall I just suggest to immediately buy a new hard drive for the laptop as this one will just keep on deteriorating?  Or, as everything is now backed up, keep on using the laptop until the inevitable happens which could be; days, weeks or months, as this laptop isn't really used for anything majorly important?  Thanks in advance,  JD
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Does it stil make much difference, now that we have much faster and larger HDDs? Generally I find if disk performance is getting too slow, it's probably because of too little free space, and the solution is to buy a new HDD.
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I have a laptop that's running on the following:   MSI MS-1634X motherboard AMD Turion X2 TL-66 CPU ATI Mobility Radeon HD2600   It keeps overheating, especially when I do something more CPU and GPU-intensive such as games. I've tried SpeedFan and Notebook Hardware Control and neither are able to help control my fans. I also have a Targus Chillmat for my laptop which helps cool down my laptop, but it still overheats. Are there any fan controlling programs that I could use to maybe turn up the RPMs on my fans or any other ways to cool down my laptop? My laptop runs pretty hot, maybe 80c core when being used, not even intensively. The Hard drive stays cool though, close to 35c.  Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
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It's now summer around here, with temperatures ranging from 20C to 30C in the summer. Occasionally, I have a situation where I can carry my laptop indoors, or just leave it in the car for a few hours.  My question is: will it cause any sort of damage if I leave it in the car for several hours? I usually bring it indoors just in-case, but I thought I'd ask. Note that the laptop is always off at this time.
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If a Hard Disk Drive has a head that depends on complete accuracy to read, how can a laptop function if it  is moving?  Is the HDD head strong enough to stay stable and read while the entire laptop is moving?  Is it possible for the head to impact the disk?  If so, what would happen?  Basically, I'm just curious if it's bad to have a laptop running while you move it around  Any answers, insight or corrections are appreciated, thanks!
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I have a Windows HDD attached to an external docking bay on my Ubuntu System, but the HDD brings up an error message:     Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 14: Windows is hibernated, refused to mount.   Failed to mount '/dev/sda5': Operation not permitted   The NTFS partition is hibernated. Please resume and shutdown Windows   properly, or mount the volume read-only with the 'ro' mount option, or   mount the volume read-write with the 'remove_hiberfile' mount option.   For example type on the command line:           mount -t ntfs-3g -o remove_hiberfile /dev/sda5 /media/92441EC8441EAF4B      I am at a loss for exactly how to remove the hiberfile, or even mount it as read-only or read-write. I tried directly copy and pasting that exact command into my terminal, but it said:  mount:only root can do that   I do not know what to do at this point. I do need to get the information off of this drive, but I do not have a computer to put it in. Does anyone know what I should do from here?
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Out of nothing, my  became extremely hot while charging. So hot, I could not even touch it.  What could cause it?  I've been using it so I can leave multiple old 85W MagSafe chargers at various places, so I plug my new late 2013 15" Retina MacBook Pro without having to bring a charger.  Edit:  After inspecting for discoloured parts, I saw the flat side of the aluminium surface is a bit discoloured.   This is what I've done after it got hot:   I cleaned everything a couple of times with finger nails and a wooden toothpick (to prevent scratching: electric stuff doesn't like metal fragments). The connector kept getting hot. After turning the connector 180 degrees, it kept cold. If I turned the power plug 180 degrees or 360 degrees, it stays cool too.   Turning 180 degrees was  by  and seems to fix the issue every time this happens.
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I recently ran yes &gt; /dev/null for a 3 minutes to drain my Mac's battery. During that time, the temperature rose to 72 °C and fans spun up to 4000 RPM. I immediately quit the process.   Should I fear that has this damaged hardware or the logic board?
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Ok, so I know what hiberfil.sys is, and I want to use hibernation on my laptop.  But I have another hard drive active in my laptop, it's taken from my old one... and I want to get rid of the hiberfil.sys on that drive. But even with admin privileges I can't delete it.  Any ideas?