Irr, I have left the case off and can touch the drive and it seems pretty cool. I have run drives so hot you can't touch them with no averse affects and these drives (with the case off) don't seem really warm yet I have grief. I'll get a fan and try it though. -Randy --- Riba <riba at hi.hinet.hr> wrote: > > It is also not a heat problem as the Thermoindock claims the > > ambient temps are identical using all of the hard drives (20c to 40c). > > I'd say that it easily could be a heat problem. At least my 80 GB WD > had the same symptoms until I put the fan in. Don't rely on temp > measuring software - they measure CPU temp (poorly). Touch your HD and > you will see what I mean :) ===== ¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º° Randy Spencer (510) 769-1949 AIM:RanSpen Citrus Insight #5427 http://geocities.com/israndy __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com