I assume as much , as well. That's why I was hoping that something BIG with a big fan/lots of air movement might have been a step up. Maybe I need to wait 10 years until I can get water-cooled G5 towers on eBay for under US$30 :-) Michael On Dec 11, 2006, at 3:36 AM, Philip J Robar wrote: >> But I've been down that road..SEVERAL times. I've had 3 external >> cases (not the drives) fail. > > I'd say you've had really bad luck. There's not much that can go > wrong with an external case. It's just a small bridge board and a > power supply. I wonder if heat related problems might have been the > root cause? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x4u/attachments/20061211/6065638b/attachment-0001.html