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muskrat's data eng expert's hard drive overheats while processing 60k rows (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[โ€“] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I had it happen to a random hard drive I bought, old bastard found in a bin at a local thrift store. Anyways had a big dent in it and while it started up, even booting into windows XP it cooked itself made a screeching noise and was hot to the touch. Don't think I need to explain that the big dent was probably the source of the overheating, anyways had to use an oven mitt to relocate it to a metal bucket of water where it boiled for a minute.

[โ€“] Professorozone@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

So the story is plausible then?