On 24/08/2020 17:34, Jim Jackson wrote:
>> 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.

The slower ones are designed for laptops, and are generally located in
an area which does not benefit from any active cooling.
> 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.

They can certainly get warm under heavy use, but I've never had one
which has exceeded its limits in smart data. When idle they take next to
no power unlike normal HDs, so unless you are continually thrashing it,
it wont be a problem.

---druck

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