> It's true that a big passive heatsink avoids a fan, but from what I've
> seen a 2.5" disk gets warm when it's busy,

My experience is only with 2.5in spinners, but I've run "silent" systems
for nearly 20 years, no fans, and 2.5in disks 'cos the slower ones are
quieter and use less energy. Never ever had a problem with them
overheating.

As a general question to folks out there - do SSD's overheat? I'm going
to be changing some disks to SSD's soon - probably not very large ones.

cheers
Jim

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