[plug] egg cooking hd's

[Shayne O'Neill]

I get this phenomena too. A reaally reaally almost too hot to touch hard
drive. Hasnt seemed to of caused problems yet, but it does worry me and I
wonder if its worth installing a heatsink or fan in it.

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On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Cameron Patrick wrote:

> Timothy White wrote:
>
> > I have 2 identical 80Gb drives which both get thrashed about. Hda is
> > without a caddie and has got up to 52C before while hdc has only got up
> > to 47C.
>
> That's still rather hot.  For comparison, the drive in my desktop at
> home is sitting at 33C.
>
> Cameron.
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