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3rd August 2007, 19:36
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| Madshrimp  Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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 |  NEC and Hitachi team to water-cool hard drives Score one for water-cooling fanatics. NEC and Hitachi just announced a partnership focused on developing a liquid cooling system for hard drives. Let's take a look at how liquid cooling typically works, why it's attractive, and how Hitachi and NEC plan to liquid cool a hard drive. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...rd-drives.html
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3rd August 2007, 19:37
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| Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| ----------------- the arrow above misses a point, just like this pointless product... seriously, they plan to put this in OEM machines?
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4th August 2007, 03:47
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| Member Join Date: Jun 2006
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 | Just another great sounding feature to list on the final product. What was those statistics Google had again, cooling a hard drive below its standard temperature was almost as bad as letting the drive overheat or something to that effect?  |
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4th August 2007, 07:01
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| Well that's useless... now if only we could overclock HDDs  |
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5th August 2007, 13:07
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| [M] Reviewer  Join Date: Nov 2004
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  | It is possible, but only if you have the right knowledge to do so  |
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5th August 2007, 13:09
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| Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| you risk data corruption easily, not worth the small "potential" speed increase
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