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3rd August 2007, 19:36 | #1 |
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 | #2 |
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 | #3 |
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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? |
4th August 2007, 07:01 | #4 |
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| Well that's useless... now if only we could overclock HDDs |
5th August 2007, 13:07 | #5 |
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| It is possible, but only if you have the right knowledge to do so |
5th August 2007, 13:09 | #6 |
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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