diff --git a/src/extension.js b/src/extension.js
index 22adee7..5ea77f0 100644
--- a/src/extension.js
+++ b/src/extension.js
@@ -74,6 +74,12 @@ const SensorsMenuButton = new Lang.Class({
             this.hddtempArgv = Utilities.detectHDDTemp();
         }
 
+        this.udisksProxies = [];
+        Utilities.UDisks.get_drive_ata_proxies((function(proxies) {
+            this.udisksProxies = proxies;
+            this._updateDisplay(this._sensorsOutput, this._hddtempOutput);
+        }).bind(this));
+
         this._settingsChanged = settings.connect("changed", Lang.bind(this,function(){ this._querySensors(false); }));
 
         this._querySensors(true);
@@ -128,6 +134,8 @@ const SensorsMenuButton = new Lang.Class({
         if(this.hddtempArgv)
             tempInfo = tempInfo.concat(Utilities.parseHddTempOutput(hddtemp_output, !(/nc$/.exec(this.hddtempArgv[0])) ? ': ' : '|'));
 
+        tempInfo = tempInfo.concat(Utilities.UDisks.create_list_from_proxies(this.udisksProxies));
+
         tempInfo.sort(function(a,b) { return a['label'].localeCompare(b['label']) });
         fanInfo.sort(function(a,b) { return a['label'].localeCompare(b['label']) });
         voltageInfo.sort(function(a,b) { return a['label'].localeCompare(b['label']) });
diff --git a/src/prefs.js b/src/prefs.js
index 97d6a12..2ba004b 100644
--- a/src/prefs.js
+++ b/src/prefs.js
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ const SensorsPrefsWidget = new GObject.Class({
 
         }
 
-        //List of items of the ComboBox 
+        //List of items of the ComboBox
         this._model =  new Gtk.ListStore();
         this._model.set_column_types([GObject.TYPE_STRING, GObject.TYPE_BOOLEAN]);
         this._appendItem(_("Average"));
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ const SensorsPrefsWidget = new GObject.Class({
 
         //Fill the list
         this._getSensorsLabels();
+        this._getUdisksLabels();
 
         if(this._display_hdd_temp) {
             this._appendSeparator();
@@ -192,6 +193,14 @@ const SensorsPrefsWidget = new GObject.Class({
         }
     },
 
+    _getUdisksLabels: function() {
+        Utilities.UDisks.get_drive_ata_proxies((function(proxies) {
+            let list = Utilities.UDisks.create_list_from_proxies(proxies);
+
+            this._appendMultipleItems(list);
+        }).bind(this));
+    },
+
     _getActiveSensorIter: function() {
         /* Get the first iter in the list */
         [success, iter] = this._model.get_iter_first();
diff --git a/src/utilities.js b/src/utilities.js
index 5949f70..83f33c4 100644
--- a/src/utilities.js
+++ b/src/utilities.js
@@ -6,6 +6,16 @@ const Me = imports.misc.extensionUtils.getCurrentExtension();
 const Gettext = imports.gettext.domain(Me.metadata['gettext-domain']);
 const _ = Gettext.gettext;
 
+const UDisksDriveProxy = Gio.DBusProxy.makeProxyWrapper(
+<interface name="org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Drive">
+    <property type="s" name="Model" access="read"/>
+</interface>);
+
+const UDisksDriveAtaProxy = Gio.DBusProxy.makeProxyWrapper(
+<interface name="org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Drive.Ata">
+    <property type="d" name="SmartTemperature" access="read"/>
+</interface>);
+
 function detectSensors() {
     let path = GLib.find_program_in_path('sensors');
     return path ? [path] : undefined;
@@ -231,7 +241,78 @@ const Future = new Lang.Class({
     }
 });
 
+// Poor man's async.js
+const Async = {
+    // mapping will be done in parallel
+    map: function(arr, mapClb /* function(in, successClb)) */, resClb /* function(result) */) {
+        let counter = arr.length;
+        let result = [];
+        for (let i = 0; i < arr.length; ++i) {
+            mapClb(arr[i], (function(i, newVal) {
+                result[i] = newVal;
+                if (--counter == 0) resClb(result);
+            }).bind(null, i)); // i needs to be bound since it will be changed during the next iteration
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 function debug(str){
     //tail -f -n100 ~/.cache/gdm/session.log | grep temperature
     print ('LOG temperature@xtranophilist: ' + str);
 }
+
+// routines for handling of udisks2
+const UDisks = {
+    // creates a list of sensor objects from the list of proxies given
+    create_list_from_proxies: function(proxies) {
+        return proxies.filter(function(proxy) {
+            // 0K means no data available
+            return proxy.ata.SmartTemperature > 0;
+        }).map(function(proxy) {
+            return {
+                label: proxy.drive.Model,
+                temp: proxy.ata.SmartTemperature - 272.15
+            };
+        });
+    },
+
+    // calls callback with [{ drive: UDisksDriveProxy, ata: UDisksDriveAtaProxy }, ... ] for every drive that implements both interfaces
+    get_drive_ata_proxies: function(callback) {
+        Gio.DBusObjectManagerClient.new(Gio.DBus.system, 0, "org.freedesktop.UDisks2", "/org/freedesktop/UDisks2", null, null, function(src, res) {
+            try {
+                let objMgr = Gio.DBusObjectManagerClient.new_finish(res); //might throw
+
+                let objPaths = objMgr.get_objects().filter(function(o) {
+                    return o.get_interface("org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Drive") != null
+                        && o.get_interface("org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Drive.Ata") != null;
+                }).map(function(o) { return o.get_object_path() });
+
+                // now create the proxy objects, log and ignore every failure
+                Async.map(objPaths, function(obj, callback) {
+                    // create the proxies object
+                    let driveProxy = new UDisksDriveProxy(Gio.DBus.system, "org.freedesktop.UDisks2", obj, function(res, error) {
+                        if (error) { //very unlikely - we even checked the interfaces before!
+                            debug("Could not create proxy on "+obj+":"+error);
+                            callback(null);
+                            return;
+                        }
+                        let ataProxy = new UDisksDriveAtaProxy(Gio.DBus.system, "org.freedesktop.UDisks2", obj, function(res, error) {
+                            if (error) {
+                                debug("Could not create proxy on "+obj+":"+error);
+                                callback(null);
+                                return;
+                            }
+
+                            callback({ drive: driveProxy, ata: ataProxy });
+                        });
+                    });
+                }, function(proxies) {
+                    // filter out failed attempts == null values
+                    callback(proxies.filter(function(a) { return a != null; }));
+                });
+            } catch (e) {
+                debug("Could not find UDisks objects: "+e);
+            }
+        });
+    }
+};