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    Zalman Cooler Safety (newbie question)

    Discussion in 'Accessories' started by skriptspn, Sep 27, 2008.

  1. skriptspn

    skriptspn Newbie

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    Hello,

    I have recently became an owner of a new Sager 17" laptop... I also bought a Zalman cooler to use with it... Now, this question might be a bit silly, but I need confirmation that having my laptop placed on the cooler and the way it is placed at a slight angle that this will not be harmfull to either the hard drive or the dvds I put in the dvd drive... I have never owned a laptop and until now I have always used a full case desktop PCs where all the hard drives and dvd drives would be placed 100% horizontally... This is maybe where I came up with an idea that it is bad for a hard drive to operate at an angle (that it always needs to be placed horizontally)...

    So... Please confirm that I will not do any damage at all to my laptop hard drive if the laptop is placed on the zalman cooler ;)
     
    skriptspn, Sep 27, 2008
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  2. Gophn

    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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  3. billy_b0b

    billy_b0b Notebook Consultant

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    Dude everything will be fine.
     
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  4. K-TRON

    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    the discs and teh harddrive will be fine. I installed feet on my laptop. The ones in the back are 1.5" tall, and the ones in the front are 0.75" tall. I have two slot loading drives and two harddrives in my laptop, and I never had any disc related problems related to the system on a slight angle.

    The only thing I would worry about is the thing sliding off the cooler and onto the floor :eek:

    Good luck with the cooler

    K-TRON
     
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  5. Gophn

    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    the Zalman coolers have a horizontal rubber strip along the front of the stage to prevent that from happening. :)
     
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    skriptspn Newbie

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    Man... Thank you all for all of your kind responses and lots of understanding for the new laptop user such as myself...

    Gophn: great thanks for the snapshots ! :)

    I gotta say this is a very very friendly forum :)

    thanks again...
     
    skriptspn, Sep 28, 2008
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