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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.'"
Nothing for you to see here. Please swim along.
Acutally, yes, I do.
Its more than noise, however. We don't need a more efficient cooling system, we need a hard drive that uses less power and generates less heat.
The whole path that desktops are going down (except for the occasional exception such as a mac mini) is one of more power, more heat, more fans, more noise.
This is, to my mind, the grossest abuse of Moore's law that can be had. Instead, we should be building smaller and lower powered devices. Perhaps it simply reflects how cheap energy is that we choose to build computers this way.
So now we can build a whole class of hard drives that suck more power from the wall, confident that they won't make as much noise?
Am I the only one who sees the folly of this?
Michael
There is no cryptographic solution to the problem where the intended receiver and the attacker are the same entity.
You must be one of those guys with the ipod at full volume in the subway.
:-)
I'm glad you are making something out of your deafness though