SSD temperature - disk is being use outside of designed parameters

[Adi Roiban]

The current temperature is reported as 49 Celcius

On producer specifies an operation range of 0 - 70 Celcius

The disk is new , with disk utility reporting 2 hours of power on.

Here is the output from smartctl

adi@pp:~$ sudo smartctl --all /dev/sda
smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [i686-linux-3.2.0-31-generic-pae] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: KINGSTON SV200S3128G
Serial Number: 22RA30NYKAWK
Firmware Version: E120506a
User Capacity: 128,035,676,160 bytes [128 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: 9
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is: Sun Sep 30 10:04:54 2012 EEST
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: ( 249) Self-test routine in progress...
     90% of test remaining.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 32) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
     Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
     Suspend Offline collection upon new
     command.
     Offline surface scan supported.
     Self-test supported.
     No 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: ( 1) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x0039) SCT Status supported.
     SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
     SCT Feature Control supported.
     SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
  2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 100 100 050 Pre-fail Offline - 0
  3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0013 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0
  8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 100 100 050 Pre-fail Offline - 0
  9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 2
 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 12
167 Unknown_Attribute 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
168 Unknown_Attribute 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 2
169 Unknown_Attribute 0x0013 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0
173 Unknown_Attribute 0x0012 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
175 Program_Fail_Count_Chip 0x0013 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0023 045 045 030 Pre-fail Always - 45 (Min/Max 30/45)
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0013 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Self-test routine in progress 00% 2 -

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.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome-disk-utility 3.0.2-2ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-31.50-generic-pae 3.2.28
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-31-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu13
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Sep 30 10:08:04 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120817.3)
SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.