I am running the 500GB Momentus XT in an external enclosure. The enclosure is the Mukii Transimp TIP-230-SU (http://www.mukii.com.tw/en/products/transimp/tip-230su-bk.html) When I rest my hand on it, it feels very warm, like the top of a baseboard radiator. Not burning, but certainly uncomfortable i.e. you wouldn't use such a high temperature on a heating pad for athletic injuries because your skin would certainly get reddish after a few minutes. It makes me wonder whether this is normal. I used smartmontools's smartctl to query the S.M.A.R.T. report (attached at the bottom). It shows the temperature as 52 celsius, whereas the the specs say that the ambient temperature can go up to 60 celsius in operation. [http://www.seagate.com/staticfiles/support/disc/manuals/notebook/momentus/XT (Anak 7200.1)/100610268a.pdf]. So would it be correct to say that this is a nonissue?
S.M.A.R.T. report from cygwin's smartmontools
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smartctl 5.42 2011-10-20 r3458 [i686-pc-cygwin-win7(64)-sp1] (cygwin-5.42-1)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Seagate Momentus XT
Device Model: ST95005620AS
Serial Number: 5YX1C5R6
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 03db0a583
Firmware Version: SD26
User Capacity: 500,107,862,016 bytes [500 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 4
Local Time is: Mon May 21 21:51:59 2012 EDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 625) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x73) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
No Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 105) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x1001) SCT Status supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 111 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 41590314
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 097 097 000 Pre-fail Always - 0
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 171
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 065 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 3286379
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 217
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 181
184 End-to-End_Error 0x0032 100 100 099 Old_age Always - 0
187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 048 048 045 Old_age Always - 52 (Min/Max 30/52)
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 60
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 3090
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 052 052 000 Old_age Always - 52 (0 18 0 0 0)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 057 047 000 Old_age Always - 41590314
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
