[CUBE] Has anyone tossed this one around before?

[Hal]

I've thought about this as well. Notebook drives are quieter on average 
than desktop drives. I've seen "converters" that accept a notebook 
drive and fit into larger mounting brackets. Perhaps  a Travelstar 
5400RPM, 8MB cache drive would work well. In any case, it would open up 
some airspace in there. I'd miss having a 100GB drive internal though...

-Hal
On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 02:11 PM, Brian Placzankis wrote:

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> I would never try this, I'm quite happy with my GeForce 3 but for all 
> of those folks who are trying to squeeze those bigger video cards in, 
> how about using a smaller Notebook sized 2.5" or even the smaller iPod 
> drives in place of the larger 3.5" hard disk.  It would be slower for 
> disk, but it would open up some space to move the DC-DC Board to a 
> well ventilated portion of the Cube (nearer to the central chimney) as 
> well as the drive itself would run cooler than its 3.5" counterpart 
> via lower power consumption and a greater surface area to volume 
> ratio.  IBM (or whoever they sold their drive operations to) is 
> supposed to be coming up with some faster notebook drives with larger 
> caches and higher rpm.  The toughest part would be modifying the 
> mounting and coming up with the adaptor board from the laptop style 
> ATA/power to the regular full sized connections.
>
> For some of you Radeon 9000 or bust folks, this might be the ticket.
>
> What do you think?
>
> BTW, those slot loading superdrives from MCE sure look nice but will 
> they sell them to Cube users?  As far as I know, they never came 
> through on their original promise to sell the combo drive to Cube 
> owners.
>
> plaz
>
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