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How about a hard disk? how does that do submerged? Maybe there is a business opportunity there. There was no talk of reclaiming the waste heat to do anything u
by K2h 15y ago
How about a hard disk? how does that do submerged? Maybe there is a business opportunity there.
There was no talk of reclaiming the waste heat to do anything useful with - I image starting with heat in oil may be easier to do cool things with than pulling it directly out of air.
- dasil003 15y agoAren't HDDs airtight due to the risk of dust crashing the disk?
- DanBC 15y agoNo. They have a small hole, with a version of goretex. This is to deal with different air-pressure. The heads ride on a cushion of air, so it's pretty important not to mess with that. There's usually a small silica gel bag inside the case too, to cope with moisture. Finally, Google did research showing that hot hard drives are not really a problem; they're not more likely to fail just because they're hot. (Until they get very hot, I think.)
- mistercow 15y agoApparently harddrives are not completely hermetically sealed for pressure equalization reasons, so you'd have to do some fiddling to submerge them. I'm not clear what the point of submerging the harddrive is though.
- freehunter 15y agoYeah, hard drives themselves don't generate a lot of heat. Most heat issues with hard drives come from extra heat in the case not being efficiently moved out. If it's just a couple hard drives by themselves, passive air cooling should be enough to keep them running.