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Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash
...Sometimes spinning is unavoidable. I have to completely dismantle one of my Dell laptops to clean out the fan area, and when I take out the fan+dual heatsink (one each for the main and graphics processors) I'm faced with a choice - remove 8 tiny screws and fully dismantle it or spin the fan to clean it out. I generally spin the fan because by that point I'm tired of tiny screws...
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By spinning the fans, I'm referring to letting the air pressure spin the fans. Spinning too fast could wreck the fan bearings and, although it's really remote, it's possible for a fan to generate a voltage that could feed back and fry something. Rotating the fan manually to gain access to what's behind it isn't going to hurt it. I have to do that to completely clean the heatsink on my machine's CPU.
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Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash
...It wasn't so much that I needed the drive space as it was the fact that my drive-image backups were taking longer than they needed to because of the redundant files.
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That's why I let processes like that that run a long time run overnight while I'm sleeping. If the process requires that I babysit it while it is running, I get a different process. My computer is supposed to simplify my life, not make more work for me.