SpaceMartian wrote:
Well seems like you had bad or fried HDD there, usually SSD cause computers to run hotter, not cooler! Reason is simple, instead of having your CPU idling while your hard drive does it's thing, not it has to work much harder because wait times are almost eliminated. I've seen with older laptops or low end ones, that as soon you swap the drive, the CPU instantly becomes the main bottleneck for the system, often becoming the source of 95% of all the "wait time" you experience. HDD do heat up a bit (SSD also do, but it is inappreciable in any average laptop, they never give it enough work to that become a factor), but to the point you describe, it was either damaged or bad quality. Or that laptop has hideous thermals, which could also be the case.
I've no idea what any of that means, sorry.
My old laptop with a disc drive was about 7 years old so it got very hot. The one with an SSD is nice and cool.
_________________
That alien woman. On Earth to observe and wonder about homo sapiens.