From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]I think the MacWorld article was cautioning owners of the FANLESS iMac drives that there could be a potential heat issue. Owners of the Rev. A and B iMacs with functioning fans can probably disregard the warning, since their fans will simply kick on more often if they install a hotter drive. Today's drives probably don't add much heat (compared to the factory installed drives of yesteryear) anyway.
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Stuart Saunders wrote:
I am shortly to upgrade my Bondi Blue with new hard
drive and extra ram. I would like a large, (80 gb +,) fast (7200 RPM)
drive, but have seen some references to excess heat from these drives.
................ Does anybody have one of these fast drives in this or
similar iMac? Is heat a problem?
What brand/s is/are recommended?
Stuart, I have a Rev.A iMac that I put a 40gb Western Digital 7200 in about a year ago (at the time, the drives were too pricey for me to go larger). I too have been thinking of going with a 120gb, and don't think I have a problem with heat - at least not on my 40gb anyway
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