Helping people with computers... one answer at a time. Several
components in your computer definitely use power and generate
heat in proportion to how they're used. I'll review the two
biggies. Hard drives get hot because of moving parts inside. But
does anything else contribute to their heat output? Does a 1TB
hard drive produce more heat energy than, say, a 500GB hard
drive, all other things equal. And if a 1TB hard drive, for
example, is running 9 applications at once, is it producing more
heat than if it were only running two applications? In other
words, is my computer burning more calories when it's thinking
harder? Yes it does. While strictly speaking, drive capacity
doesn't have an impact, the internal characteristics of a drive
certainly can. And you're right, it's all about the moving
parts. But there's more to it than just the drive. And while I
suspect you didn't mean it that way, calories is actually also
an accurate term. You can probably guess that a disk spinning
generates a certain amount of