[CUBE] New Hard Drive & Cooling Fan

[Robar J Philip]

On Jan 16, 2004, at 2:11 PM, William Dawdy wrote:

> Hello
> I am planning to replace the original 20 GB Hard Drive on my wife's G4 
> cube with a new Seagate Barracuda 80 GB Hard Drive. I used this same 
> model 80 GB Hard Drive on my G4 400 tower as a second (slave) hard 
> drive and it works fine after a year +.
> (1) Comments on this or a better Hard Drive? (I downloaded a PDF on 
> replacing the cube hard drive.)
> (2) Will it require the addition of a cooling fan to the cube? We live 
> in Tucson AZ and it does get a tad warm.
> (3) Who makes a good fan kit for the cube? I heard someone has one 
> with a blue light, I assume it's like the UFO for the G4 iMac which 
> has a blue light.

See http://www.storagereview.com/ for hard drive reviews including 
noise and temperature information. The "Leaderboard" link at the top of 
the page will tell you which drives are currently the best in several 
categories.

Phil