Use SMART to slow down or pause when disk overheats

[arossau]

Hi,

Excellent tool - I also enjoyed version 3.x.

How about checking SMART to see if the disk is overheating from the intensive work by the defragger? If the disk i running hot MyDefrag should slow down or pause until the temperature has fallen below the limit again.

It seems that 55 degrees celcius is the most common limit specified by the hardware vendors, so that could be the default value. It should be configurable though.

Thanks.

[jeroen]

Thanks for sharing your idea, I appreciate it! A long time ago somebody else suggested this for JkDefrag, but JkDefrag was not configurable enough. Now with MyDefrag it is possible, because of the scripting language. Checking for the temperature has to be a configurable setting per disk, it cannot be an automatic setting because harddisks are designed to run at different temperatures. So, I will put it on the wish-list, to be implemented in the future!