I would second the recommendation of replacing the fan. I have a couple
of external drives that I use on a regular basis the have cooling and
even with it, when then are under a heavy load, they get quite warm.
Shane
Elliott Jeyaseelan wrote:
Depending on the manufacturer and maybe the rpm of the drive, it may need
active cooling.
Alternatively you may replace the fan with a quieter type from your local
electronic surplus store.
Elliott
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Dave Abergel
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 12:31 PM
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Subject: External cases for internal hard drives
Hi all
Very, very general question here so feel free to ignore it 8o)
I have just bought an external case for an old IDE hard drive
that I had
lying around. It works fine, but the fan in it is *really*
noisy. Do you
reckon if I unplug the power cable to the fan and use the drive as
normal that I'm going to run into any problems? Anyone got
experience of
these things?
Cheers
Dave
8o)
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