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Understanding the temperature of your hard drive is crucial not only for maintaining the health of your system but also in preventing hardware failure. Overheating can lead to significant damage and data loss, which makes temperature monitoring an essential aspect of system maintenance. In Linux, one of the go-to tools for monitoring the temperature of HDD and SSD drives is hddtemp. hddtemp is a command-line utility that lets you monitor the temperature of your hard drive(s). It supports most types of hard drives and can display temperatures in Celsius or Fahrenheit. hddtemp works by reading the S.M.A.R.