<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 10:30 AM, <<a href="mailto:backuppc@sundquist.imapmail.org">backuppc@sundquist.imapmail.org</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> Agreed... but the heat issues tend to be more pronounced in an external box.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> Also, once you have the external box, it's a little harder to resolve that<br>
> problem than with a full sized box.<br>
<br>
</div>I am using one of these:<br>
<a href="http://computershopper.com/reviews/antec-mx1-external-hard-drive-enclosure-review" target="_blank">http://computershopper.com/reviews/antec-mx1-external-hard-drive-enclosure-review</a><br>
which is fan-cooled. I have had good luck with it, but have not had it<br>
all that long. It does both USB and eSATA. I am using eSATA and it is<br>
as fast as a drive inside the box (as it should be).<br>
<br>
I got this plus a 500-GB Seagate at Fry's for about $130, just a couple<br>
of bucks more than the mybooks and ibooks, etc. of the world for the<br>
same storage, but it comes with a fan.<br>
<br>
J.S.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br>At this point im thinking im going to use my old Athlon 1800+ to build a NAS box. I do have one other 120gb drive i would like to put in my Mythbox but there is no room in the backend box. I don't really like the idea of having to turn on another PC 24x7 just to run drives but i guess its necessary. I cant really move my backend to the NAS/new box because commflag and transcode will run REALLY slow on a 1.5ghz AMD! Compared to my 5700 X2!<br>
<br>Thanks for the comments. Now i just need to find time to build a box.....Dam Small Linux looks like a good choice for this project tho. <br><br>Mitchell<br></div>