Same issue with the Hitachi/HGST Travelstar Z5K500 drive. Please consider adding this line in /etc/hddtemp.db: "(Hitachi|HGST|APPLE HDD) HT[ES]5450(25|32|50)A7E(362|38[01]|680)" 190 C "Hitachi/HGST Travelstar Z5K500"
After that netcat hddtemp correctly reports the drive temperature: $ netcat localhost 7634 |/dev/sda|HGST HTS545050A7E680|33|C| # smartctl -a /dev/sda ... === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Hitachi/HGST Travelstar Z5K500 Device Model: HGST HTS545050A7E680 Serial Number: RBF50AAH3N1TDP LU WWN Device Id: 5 000cca 8aaf364a4 Firmware Version: GR2OA3J0 User Capacity: 500,107,862,016 bytes [500 GB] Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical Rotation Rate: 5400 rpm Form Factor: 2.5 inches Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: ACS-2, ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 6 SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s) Local Time is: Fri Aug 20 10:40:35 2021 IST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled ... 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 0x002f 100 100 062 Pre-fail Always - 0 ... 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 067 050 045 Old_age Always - 33 (Min/Max 26/33) .... # Thanks!