chepfaust

i've got a perpetual problem with my laptop's hard drive gradually heating up to the point where the laptop becomes uncomfortable to use (about 40'C and above for me).

while web browsing under such heated conditions the other day, i realized that i had caching enabled. when i disabled web caching, my average running temperature while surfing the web dropped by 2-4'C.

so, i ask- anybody know of any other applications/processes i should be wary of that might be constantly accessing the hard drive? i'm trying to keep the HD temperature as low as possible, both for my wrists' and my hard drive longevity's sake.

furthermore, and on somewhat of a tangent- are there any windows/linux filesystems that handle hard drive access more conservatively than NTFS? or does the filesystem not even matter...i've heard that journaling(?) filesystems typically don't write data to the hard disk as often as other filesystems, however if power is lost then so is all the data that wasn't written yet.

thanks

Benoit

If you have enough RAM then you could probably disable virtual memory

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ZenMasterJG

NTFS is a journalled file system (im pretty sure it is, at least...)
Turning off virtual memory would help a LOT, especially if your running windows, as i am of the opinion that windows page file useage is fundimentally broken.
If its a big problem, consider getting an external hard drive. Laptop drives really are pretty annoying. (Mine just crashed, gotta get a new one now. This time im getting a little laptop harddrive that will do nothing, and a BIG external for all my data, etc.)

chepfaust

aha; i totally forgot about disabling virtual memory after i reformatted, so no wonder i'm having this problem. thanks for reminding me

an external hard drive would just be more stuff to carry, and as it is i'm breaking my back. but thanks for the suggestion. your drive that crashed, how long have you had it?