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New Water-Cooled Hard Drives Coming
CoolHandLuke writes "NEC and Hitachi are teaming up on a liquid cooling system for hard drives. The goal is to cut down on noise levels while providing more efficient cooling. 'Hitachi and NEC are developing the water-cooled hard drive systems for desktop computers mainly to reduce noise levels to 25 decibels, 5 decibels quieter than a whisper. To do this, NEC and Hitachi actually wrap the hard drive in "noise absorbing material and vibration insulation." According to Hitachi and NEC, the cooling cold plate they're planning to use is the most efficient plate ever used for heat conduction, which means they'll be able to cool the hard drives quicker and more efficiently.'"
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"25 decibels, 5 decibels quieter than a whisper."
That's a ******* loud whisper!!
Couldn't agree more. Furthermore, if you consider that I just heard this and I don't understand this world. Everyone can be up in arms because Michael Richards or Mel Gibson call someone something racially motivated and then when other people do something like this it's just fine. I'm mixed but I have a light complexion so no one really called me that, but plenty of my cousins were called that. Black girls often called them that for being friends with white people and I always thought that was completely ridiculous but it was also meant to be an insult just the way anyone would use any other racial slur. But this will be a drop in the bucket because black people can say whatever they want. In my entire life the only people who have ever been "racist" toward me were black people. No one acknowledges how racist black people can be. It's like they get a free pass.