Hard Drive "assembly" temps way high on hwmonitor?

Now airflow is 101c and assembly is 27c. I'm idling...and now theres no "drive" category. What is going on? These can't be correct temp readings lol

I prefer HD Sentinel or HDDScan for accessing a HDD's SMART data.

HD Sentinel (DOS / Windows / Linux):
http://www.hdsentinel.com/

HDDScan for Windows:
http://hddscan.com/

See this article for SMART info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.

So is this article saying that if the hdd was that hot I'd be getting some type of warning? I also downloaded "HDD Temperature v.4" and havent seen any temp. jumps on that program. Seems to be that CPUID is the only thing getting those astronomical temps. Is it safe to say CPUID is wrong?

I don't know where the other programs are getting their information, but HDDScan and HD Sentinel read the HDD's SMART sectors. The Airflow Temperature in WD drives is often displayed as a temperature difference from 150, so a normalised value of 100 would correspond to an actual temperature of 50C.

A program such as smartctl (from smartmontools) also reports a temperature history for the drive. The drive maintains a log of the number of times that it has exceeded its allowable temperature maximum.

I have no idea what the author of CPUID hwmonitor means by "assembly" temperature.

the assembly is the temp of the drive where did you get that airflow reading since it is not in hwmonitor post a screenshot of that reading .

Yeah as you can see they're at 1c now. Pretty weird

Post a HD Tune or HDDScan or CrystalDiskInfo screenshot.

hwmonitor is useless.

this drive is mark to work from 5 c to 55 c and it is a red series for business you could use the data digital lifeguard test from wd on short test if your afraid of having a issue with it .

Yeah starting to realize that now lol.

I downloaded sentinel and everything seems good, i also checked with other monitoring programs as well. I'm pretty sure HW Monitor is just malfunctioning at this point.

I have noticed that even WD's own DATA LifeGuard diagnostic sometimes has trouble accessing the SMART data via certain SATA drivers and/or controllers. AIUI there are usually two ways (IOCTLs) to access these data. HD Sentinel seems to get it right nearly all the time. I suspect that it tries both ways and is intelligent enough to realise when the data are bogus.

If you examine HD Sentinel's report, you should see two attributes, Temperature and Airflow Temperature. I think the concept of "assembly" temperature must mean something in German, but whatever it is got lost in the translation.