[Dream] external harddrives

[Almir]

thanks for the feedback everyone. i just ordered this one
http://www.fan-tec.com/html/en/0/article.html and a 320 gig seagate hd.

On 7/2/07, Doofus McFluoro <doofus.mcfluoro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Do any of them come with fans?
>
> None of my 2.5's do, for obvious reasons.  But I havent seen a 3.5
> with a fan either.
>
> Generally s peaking though most of the heat gets lost through the case
> as the enclosures are external.  Not had a problem so far with mine
> and I have been using them some years now.
>
> On 7/2/07, Conor Todd <conor.k.todd at gmail.com> wrote:
> > And make sure the enclosure has a fan -- the most common cause of
> hard-disk
> > failure is over-heating.
> >
> >    - Conor
> >
> >
> >
> > On 7/2/07, Dale Ghent < daleg at elemental.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Jul 2, 2007, at 9:29 AM, Almir wrote:
> > >
> > > > no particular reason really. so you recommend just buying an
> > > > enclosure and a hard drive separately? anything i should pay
> > > > special attention to when buying an enclosure?
> > >
> > > Be sure that the enclosure uses an Oxford bridge chipset (at least an
> > > Oxford 922 chip) ... this chip does the job of converting from the
> > > drive's IDE interface to Firewire and USB2.
> > >
> > > /dale
> > >
> > >
> > >
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