The room was full of tall towers of data storage units, each one breathing heavily as the heat-sink paste lathered on the components struggled to keep up with the continual addition of more information.
Thermal paste is used on the interface between the heat sink and the device producing the heat. If you coat the whole heat sink with paste, you're probably reducing its efficiency. And why are the heat sinks just sitting out in the open? And why isn't the place adequately cooled?
