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Date:	Sun, 24 Feb 2002 16:48:30 PST7
From:	Steve Carter <scarter@vcnet.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Any limitation on hard drive size ?

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Take that with a grain of salt...

Different manufacturer's measurements to no clear
standard (although the intent is clear).

Still, with such a difference, there is likely to
be a noticeable difference in temperature rise.
6-7W is not bad for a 1" high, 3.5 inch drive, though.
It'll run cool enough if the air is allowed to circulate.

And 6-7W is historically consistent with recent previous generations
of low-profile IBM drives. My 2.5 inch 4200 RPM laptop drives all
draw about 2.5W. On that basis, 3.75W for a 3.5 incher seems
unreasonably low.

The 13W (and higher) drives definitely need air,
often forced air, sometimes a hurricane.

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On 2/24/02, Peter Skye wrote, in part:
>> As for heat, the Maxtor drive uses less power
>> than the IBM drive (5.2 watts vs. 6.7 watts)
>> so the Maxtor would run cooler than the IBM.
>
>I misread my notes. The Maxtor is _much_ cooler than the IBM -- the
>idle power is 3.75 watts for the Maxtor and 6.7 watts for the IBM.
>
>- Peter
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