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muskrat's data eng expert's hard drive overheats while processing 60k rows
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Hard drives do get hot and need some cooling but not at 60k rows. Its either made up or their computer case is made of thermal cladding
Imo if they can't max out their harddrive for at least 24 hours without it breaking, their computer was already broken. They just didn't know it yet.
Any reasonable SSD would just throttle if it was getting too hot, and I've never heard of a HDD overheating on its own, only if there's some external heat sources, like running it in a 60°C room
You could query 60,000 rows on a low tier smart phone. Makes no sense at all.
Can we think of any device someone might have that would struggle with 60k? Certainly an ESP32 chip could handle it fine, so most IoT devices would work...
Unless the database was designed by someone who only knows of data as that robot from Star Trek, most would be absolutely fine with 60k rows. I wouldn't be surprised if the machine they're using caches that much in RAM alone.