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From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>
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Subject: Re: No Thumbs??? (lack of concensus)
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 15:36:09 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <2449.817856513@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Dec 1, 95 02:21:53 pm
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> > Yikes!  It seems that the drives tend to run 10 to 15W (typical).  My
> > tape drive is in the same case (single full height 5") and it doesn't
> > seem to complain or get too hot -- in fact, the case barely gets warm!
> > Am I missing something here??
> 
> Yeah, tape drives != disk drives. :-)

Yeah but power is power.  If you dissipate 10 - 15W, it doesn't matter
*what* is dissipating the power!  So, 2X would be in the 20 - 30W range
(comparable to the tape drive).