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    2421 hours ago

    My one question would be “How?”

    What the hell are you doing that your hard drives are overheating? How do you even know it’s overheating as I’m like 90% certain hard drives (except NVMe if we’re being liberal with the meaning of hard drive) don’t even have temperature sensors?

    The only conclusion I can come to is that everything he’s saying is just bullshit.

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      921 hours ago

      Hard drives do get hot and need some cooling but not at 60k rows. Its either made up or their computer case is made of thermal cladding

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          418 hours ago

          Can we think of any device someone might have that would struggle with 60k? Certainly an ESP32 chip could handle it fine, so most IoT devices would work…

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            112 hours ago

            Unless the database was designed by someone who only knows of data as that robot from Star Trek, most would be absolutely fine with 60k rows. I wouldn’t be surprised if the machine they’re using caches that much in RAM alone.

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            418 hours ago

            Right? There’s no part of that xeet that makes any real sense coming from a “data engineer.”

            Terrifying, really.

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        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

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          111 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.