More on hard-drive heat
It's not every day you boot a computer with the drives flopped on top of the case, but that's what I'm doing with the Maxspeed Maxterm thin client, and I still can't believe how much heat a standard hard drive throws off. That thing is HOT. Today I'm using a Seagate Barracuda ATA IV 80 GB drive, and its listed power consumption is +5V 0.85 amps, +12V 0.75 amps. All that heat must be a waste of electricity. All the more reason for better, faster flash memory to eventually replace conventional magnetic hard disk drives.
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Steven Rosenberg aims to learn what he does not know. He writes about it here.
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My two cents: whilst waiting for cheaper and faster flash drives try switching to 2.5" hard disks as I did. Way more cool and silent.
That is an excellent idea. I've seen cables to attach a laptop drive to a desktop 40-pin IDE connector and power connector. I remain shocked that CPU heat and power supply heat in my systems is nothing compared to hard-drive heat.