Re: disks are hot hot hot
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Antony Gelberg <antony@antgel.co.uk> writes:
> One thing I did notice is that the disks were rather hot, abnormally
> imo.
Have you ever felt a hard drive that's been running for a long time
without stopping? They get hot! It's a moving part, and it moves
*fast*, so it's bound to generate heat.
Koolance does make hard drive heatsinks, though.
http://www.koolance.com/
> What I am wondering is, is there some type of power saving mode /
> setting that I might have missed, a module perhaps? Or do these new
> fangled disks just run very hot?
They run hot. If you want to balance noise and heat versus hard drive
longevity, have the disks spin down after so many minutes of
inactivity.
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Paul Johnson
<baloo@ursine.ca>
Linux. You can find a worse OS, but it costs more.
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