> Most of the energy going into a hard drive ends up as heat
> in the chips & resistors, the rest in the spinning platters.

Surprisingly, it's the other way round. A significant proportion of
heat (> 50%) generated by a hard drive is caused by air friction and
bearing friction. This was told me by an engineer who worked at
Seagate and would be in a position to know.
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