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Hard Drive Temperature
One would think that the cause of hard drive heat is mechanical friction, but somewhere, I recently read that the main factor contributing to heat buildup in a hard drive is air friction across the platters. If that is true, I wonder why someone doesn't make a hard drive operating in a vacuum? Has anyone ever experimented with this?
Obviously, hard drive temperature directly relates to hard drive wear, the main weakness of hard drives. I would also imagine that if it did spin in a vacuum, that higher RPMS would be feasible, and offset the edge that SSDs have over them.