Hi,
On Thu, Apr 12 at 09:32, Victor Churchill wrote:
> On 12/04/07, Bob Dunlop <bob.dunlop@???> wrote:
> >
> >Using a modern 2.5" laptop drive will also save power 4W vs a 3.5"
> >drives 11W typical figures.
>
> Straying towards OT here, but I'd have some concerns about reliability
> running one of these 24/7. Our work tried deploying a couple of mini
> ITX boxes with 2.5" drives and they both had to be recalled after
> throwing disk errors. Maybe we were just unlucky though.
That's was my experience as well 4 years ago, they'd overheat badly.
However I think there's been a technology shift since then. 2.5" drive
power consumption seems to have plummeted from 8W to <3W. You can get
a five year warrantees for 24/7 operation these days, unheard of four
years ago.
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Bob Dunlop
