<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Greetings Liza,<div><br></div><div>If you format a circa 240 GB HD in a different Mac, like my G5, you can make it look to the Cube like two 120 GB drives. Since 120 GB is all the Cube can address, this is an excellent upgrade. Little drives like that are practically being given away in boxes of Cracker Jack now. Check out OWC.<div><br></div><div>I put a fanless TwinView ADC video card in my Cube, so it's a silent as stock, and it runs one of the old lucite 23" Cinema HD Displays (1920x1200). I like ADC better for the Cube, because the power button is on the display that way.</div><div><br></div><div>Other than maxing out the RAM and adding a Bluetooth dongle, that's all I've done to my Cube. I don't favor CPU upgrades because of the added heat: I wanted mine to remain fanless.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>George A. Pepper - BM Berklee, MM Texas State</div><div><a href="http://hucbald.blogspot.com/">http://hucbald.blogspot.com/</a> - <a href="mailto:pep27@mac.com">pep27@mac.com</a></div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 6, 2011, at 10:18 PM, liza bear wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br>topics+<br><br>1/ what is the best data retrieval place for a cooked hard drive (20 GB)?<br><br>2/ would it be safe to install a new drive in this Cube? The reason the <br>drive burned out is because the Cube overheated because something<br>had mistakenly been placed on top of it for a couple of hours while<br>editing video. Not sure whether the CPU or the video card, or other<br>components, were also affected.<br><br>3/ Alternatively, would purchase a Cube with upgraded CPU and preferably<br>upgraded video card in good running condition.<br><br>Any suggestions welcome.<br><br>Thank you.<br><br>Liza<br></td></tr></tbody></table>_______________________________________________<br>Cube mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Cube@listserver.themacintoshguy.com">Cube@listserver.themacintoshguy.com</a><br>http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/cube</blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>