Drive placement has a lot to do with this.
I recently had to swap Laptops and put my working HD into a different
style Dell. The drive in the old Dell was toward the back where the
heat sinks are and never really got warm. The newer Dell has the
drive toward the front and I can feel the heat all the time. I have
an after market Scorpio 5400 RPM 80GB (A far cry from the 4200 40 GB
it originally came with)
Stewart
At 10:03 AM 9/21/2007, you wrote:
Could be lies, could be true. Doing the wrong thing could shorten the
life of the drive and maybe even the computer. The reason laptops use
slower/smaller drives is power usage and heat buildup. However it is
likely that a newer drive would be more efficient and thus use less power
and create less heat. Only way to know is to compare the specs on the two
drives.
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org
Ozark, AL SL 82
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