Overheating hard drives hddtemp, data loss

[galen]

I'm not saying this a LL problem but I was wondering if others have been experiencing overheating hard drives.
I have 3 hard drives on 3 machines all overheating and causing data loss all within days of each other, 2 desktops 1 laptop. (possibly one more hard drive)
I check my system RAM, smartdrive fairly often
gsmartcontrol
is reporting recently my hard drives are reaching high values 79c, 97c 100c !
and yes my desktop SATA drive was hot enough to burn fingers

I wonder if there is a  bug in kernel  3.13
and has anyone else has seen anything.

I've been monitoring
sudo hddtemp /dev/sda
but am hoping to log temps, and have alerts in case of over heating.

I have a question in at
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/265657