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[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 9 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Imo if they can't max out their harddrive for at least 24 hours without it breaking, their computer was already broken. They just didn't know it yet.

Any reasonable SSD would just throttle if it was getting too hot, and I've never heard of a HDD overheating on its own, only if there's some external heat sources, like running it in a 60°C room

[–] T156@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Hard Drives might do it if the enclosure is poorly designed (no ventilation), but I can't imagine a situation where it would overheat like that that quickly, even in a sealed box. 30k is nothing in database terms, and if their query was that heavy, it would bottleneck on the CPU, and barely heat the drive at all.