I do not agree. I have SGT Cheetah 15000 on one desktop and maxtor 7200 rpm on another one (first for 2.5 years of continous use, second >5 years)
However I fried one disk, but it was mainly due to stupid BIOS in previous computer, which was spinning disk up and down to save power. There was no way to switch it off. This may make disk unusable.
So what I would recommend is when you have some free cpu cycles you may use it, but _NEVER_ with power saving enabled for disk.
Processor is quite stable piece of silicon, and as such if running in low temperatures 60* may make some damage due to diffusion. So if you think about running Folding or Seti on laptop - _CHECK_ the ventillations. And make sure it can work with one of them down - to prevent overheat when it was accidentially dead.
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I do not agree. I have SGT Cheetah 15000 on one desktop and maxtor 7200 rpm on another one (first for 2.5 years of continous use, second >5 years)
However I fried one disk, but it was mainly due to stupid BIOS in previous computer, which was spinning disk up and down to save power. There was no way to switch it off. This may make disk unusable.
So what I would recommend is when you have some free cpu cycles you may use it, but _NEVER_ with power saving enabled for disk.
Processor is quite stable piece of silicon, and as such if running in low temperatures 60* may make some damage due to diffusion. So if you think about running Folding or Seti on laptop - _CHECK_ the ventillations. And make sure it can work with one of them down - to prevent overheat when it was accidentially dead.