If you do a lot of IT related activities throughout your day, every day of the week then the hardware you’ve been using has probably seen better days. Usually, the major components of your computer are safely stashed away inside its casing so, you may not have seen them before, equally, they may not have seen daylight and had a breath of fresh air in some time too!
Reasons why hard drives, USB sticks or, SSD’s might fail
The biggest killer of computer parts is heat, second to that, the end user, mainly because, even if they aren’t aware, there are things that the user can do in order to improve the airflow of their PC’s cooling solutions. Even if the PC is a company machine, all it takes is a bit of common sense to understand that there needs to be some fresh air passing through the intakes and open space around the outlets.
If the case is designed properly, then you should be able to install fans at the front to pull in air from outside the case, and fans a fan or two on the back which serve as an exhaust fan to pump out hot air. Depending upon the case, it may also have fans at the top and the bottom to help dissipate hot air that is generated from within the case. Due to excessive heating, ssd might get crashed and you will end up losing your data. You can count on expert SSD data recovery and Android Data Recovery Services providers in that case.
Water cooling anybody?
Some cases even have enough space to accommodate a radiator, or two, hoses, pumps and water blocks so you could water cool your PC in order to keep it really happy and, give the record retrieval company something talk about after they’ve done their job. Temperatures can be dropped by as far as 30c, more in some extreme circumstances under load, the gap will be closer, although the water-cooling solution will keep your hardware at a consistent temperature, well below its point of throttling.
Typically, the CPU and GPU, if the machine has one, will be the hottest running parts, RAM can get pretty warm too, and then hard drives and solid-state drives although SSDs tend to run cooler than traditional hard drives.
Depending on the brand of hard drive and where they are situated within the case will determine how hot it gets, you could be playing a game of Russian roulette if you stick them somewhere too warm! Tamps of around 50c are acceptable considering that they don’t have fans and rely purely on airflow and passive cooling. Although SSD’s run cooler, it is still important to put some thought into where they will be situated within the case.
Bearing in mind that CPU’s and GPU’s have fans attached to them and storage devices generally do not, you’ll want to try and keep them in the coolest part of the case. More so for the HDD because it has moving parts, whereas the SSD does not.
Help your storage, and help yourself
Due to their design, hard drives actually fail quite often, speak with any qualified tech guy and they’ll confirm the same, HDD’s and RAM are the usual culprits! Therefore, helping the computer to maintain a reasonable temperature is really important, or you might lose all your data!
