On Saturday, 17 December 2011 at 16:36, Tina K. wrote:
> 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. > > > Tina > > -- Modern drives probably run a bit cooler than older ones too, even if they're a higher rpm, I put a 7200rpm seagate drive in my nan's iMac a while ago and it's been fine since. But, external firewire drive-no internal bus size limit (or hacks to get around it), no surgery required, easy to replace/upgrade in the future. Firewire might be faster than the internal at a bus anyway, it'll only be ata-66, right? -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
