You can get a quiet Panaflo fan (~$20) and install it at the same time as the drive if you are worried. See CubeOwner.com for the fan's model number and how to hook up power to it. But, you shouldn't need it with just the drive, especially if you don't do lots of disk-intensive work on your Cube. On Saturday, November 30, 2002, at 06:06 AM, Oliver Köll wrote: > 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 :-)