On 2020-08-24, druck  wrote:
> 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.

reassuring - thanks.

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