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Originally Posted by Bruce Abbott
Even on a desktop machine it can be an issue. 7200 rpm drives tend to run much hotter. If you have two drives close together they can overheat. I often had to put extra case fans in PCs to keep them cool.
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I put a 60gb 10000 or 7200 RPM 2.5 drive in my Sony Picturebook laptop the size of a DVD case and never had an issue. Needed it so XP SP1 would play 700mb DivX movies smoothly on the lovely 2.35:1 screen. Still have it I think.