On 2011/12/16 21:36, Dennis Faulkner so eloquently wrote:
As somewhat of a novice, what would "too hot" for Imac's" mean - would that mean that you would need to upgrade the fan further, or house this drive in a external housing, or what?
The Al plate that the boards are mounted to in the G3 iMacs acts as a giant heat sink and conducts the heat away from the CPU, then the heat is dispersed by passive convection (no fan). So any additional heat generated beyond what it was designed to handle can be hard to dissipate, though it's probably not much of an issue unless it is operating in a warm environment, running at 100% or doesn't have much air movement around it.
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