Thanks for all your answers - I think i'll go for a Barracuda 80 GB. I'm still a little anxious about the heat issue. Well, I'll probably get myself a meat thermometer and when it gets too hot in there with the new hard drive, i'll have an excuse to add a fan by buying a PowerLogix CPU upgrade :-) /Oliver On Freitag, November 29, 2002, at 04:48 Uhr, I wrote: > First post to this list - hi everybody! > > I'm thinking of adding a new hard drive to my stock cube, mostly > because the original one feels really slooow to me (20 GB Western > Digital, i think). > > What do you think would be the best option for a replacement with > regard to speed improvements? (should be silent, too :-) > > And: Do you think adding a faster hard drive requires putting a fan > into my Cube, or is heat not an issue with hard drives? > > Cheers and thanks in advance > > /Oliver