<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Embarrassed to admit...these were fairly cheap--although fanned--external cases. <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If heat was an issue, you'd think that the drives would have been the hardware to fail...not the cases themselves. But oh well.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Dec 12, 2006, at 4:53 PM, John Kiss wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I'm curious. I've had 2 LaCie d2 cases fail. One only 2 months out of warranty. Do you want to tell us which cases failed on you?</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>