My hard drive has a fever...

Hay guise.
My laptop's hard drive is running hotter than usual, and SMART tests do not return any errors. In your experience, has a sudden increase in temperature preceded a hard drive failure?

Some info to consider:

Hottest when idle (summertime):
Room temp: 78F
HD temp: 52C

Because it's been cold as balls lately...
Before today:
Room temp 70F
HD temp: 46C

And suddenly today:
Room temp 70F
HD temp: 55C

I'm at a loss for what could cause the sudden jump in temperature. The laptop's physical position has not changed, and the load of the drive has not increased.

obligatory:
pay attention son,

there are 2 kinds of hard drives
the kind that have failed
the kind that will fail
there are no exceptions

now then the real question is

IS YOUR SHIT BACKED UP?

any hard drive over 50C *ever* is just a recipe for fail (both senses of the word). Of course, since you have backups it's not an issue, just keep using it til it fails. Right?

Yar, I was planning on using it until it failed, since my laptop is pretty much a mirror of my desktop.
But...

GOOD NEWS, EVERYONE.

Hard drive temperature is back down to ~46C.
Turns a bug in Failbuntu was responsible for the increase in temp, and downgrading a software package fixed it.

You know... I'm happy with Ubuntu and all after switching to it from glacial-update-pace-Debian, but these fucktastic regressions seem all too common.

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