[Cube] need hard drive for Cube

[George Pepper]

Greetings Liza,

If you format a circa 240 GB HD in a different Mac, like my G5, you  
can make it look to the Cube like two 120 GB drives.  Since 120 GB is  
all the Cube can address, this is an excellent upgrade.  Little drives  
like that are practically being given away in boxes of Cracker Jack  
now.  Check out OWC.

I put a fanless TwinView ADC video card in my Cube, so it's a silent  
as stock, and it runs one of the old lucite 23" Cinema HD Displays  
(1920x1200).  I like ADC better for the Cube, because the power button  
is on the display that way.

Other than maxing out the RAM and adding a Bluetooth dongle, that's  
all I've done to my Cube.  I don't favor CPU upgrades because of the  
added heat: I wanted mine to remain fanless.

Cheers,

George A. Pepper - BM Berklee, MM Texas State
http://hucbald.blogspot.com/ - pep27 at mac.com

On Oct 6, 2011, at 10:18 PM, liza bear wrote:

>
> topics+
>
> 1/ what is the best data retrieval place for a cooked hard drive (20  
> GB)?
>
> 2/ would it be safe to install a new drive in this Cube? The reason  
> the
> drive burned out is because the Cube overheated because something
> had mistakenly been placed on top of it for a couple of hours while
> editing video. Not sure whether the CPU or the video card, or other
> components, were also affected.
>
> 3/ Alternatively, would purchase a Cube with upgraded CPU and  
> preferably
> upgraded video card  in good running condition.
>
> Any suggestions welcome.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Liza
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