On Oct 9, 2004, at 5:57 PM, kaldav wrote:
Advice appreciated.
I have replaced the hard drive and now it seems to run very hot (i.e.- too uncomfortable for a lap). The heat is felt near the hard drive, and everywhere on the underside of the case. Does this sound normal?
I am afraid not.
I replaced the original 5 gb hard drive on my Kanga (3500 with 160 ram, running OS 9.1) with a Fujitsu Laptop 18GB 4200RPM hard drive, Model MHJ2181AT. It was a used drive from a Windows machine but formatted perfectly, partitioned into 3 perfectly, and runs very smoothly as I am installing systems and programs on each partition. I am pleased with the speed and performance, but not the heat. Is there a cause for concern (too big a drive, wrong speed, etc.)?
I have larger and faster drives in my two PowerBook 3400c, both with Kanga logic board replacement. One has a Toshiba 5400-rpm 40-gb drive installed by MCE when they did the CardBus upgrade. The other has an IBM/Hitachi 5400-rpm 40-gb drive, which I installed myself. Both run quietly and only a little warm.
You "new" Fujitsu MHJ hard drive is a relatively old design, introduced over five years ago in July 1999. Most recent 2.5-inch notebook drives are faster, larger, and run cooler. Even so your heat observation does not seem normal, and the Kanga should probably be checked.
I concur with Fabian.
Hard drive power consumption and heat dissipation (same thing) are usually a function of their relative performance at the time they came out. Leading edge drives tend to run hot where as a drive of the same capacity and performance made a year or two later will be much cooler. I've got a 40 G, 9mm drive in my Wallstreet and while it's warm it's nothing that could be described as hot.
Aside from making the computer uncomfortable it can also be
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