[SLL] Laptop getting a bit warm

[Abha Harting]

Gee...things change all the time! The thing you knew with absolute certainty
yesterday turns out to be a myth today.

So I guess those top of the tower hard drive cooler fans are a waste of
money? Who would have thunk it....?

Abha


On 7/22/07, Rob Smith <kormoc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/22/07, Abha Harting <abhaha at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I like them because I figure
> > they will extend the life of the machine since heat is the enemy of
> > electronic devices.
>
> Strangely enough, Google released a paper that actually showed that
> hard drives tended to last longer when running a little hot compaired
> to being cooled excessively. See:
>
>
> http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/massive-google-hard-drive-survey-turns-up-very-interesting-thing/
>
> Just food for thought :P
>
> ~Rob
>