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<br><div><div>On Dec 10, 2006, at 8:27 PM, Michael Elliott wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>But I've been down that road..SEVERAL times. I've had 3 external cases (not the drives) fail.</div></blockquote><br></div><div>I'd say you've had really bad luck. There's not much that can go wrong with an external case. It's just a small bridge board and a power supply. I wonder if heat related problems might have been the root cause?</div><div contenteditable="false"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div>Phil<br><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></body></html>