<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">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. <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Maybe I need to wait 10 years until I can get water-cooled G5 towers on eBay for under US$30 :-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Michael</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Dec 11, 2006, at 3:36 AM, Philip J Robar wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 221); ">But I've been down that road..SEVERAL times. I've had 3 external cases (not the drives) fail.</SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>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?</DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>