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Re: Choosing Hard drives
« on: July 16, 2003, 06:50:57 PM »
I would just like to add a quick note about heat. I got my hands on a 2.1Gb IBM harddrive and it seems most IBM drives get extremely hot. Was told that IBM drives do get hot and they've just now started to fix the problem on 70+gb drives. So if you got some addons in the mashine such as Apollo/Viper040/060 boards with the CPU facing inwards the mashine and perhaps some clockport hardware and such then you might want to avoid the IBM brand.

(Due to the fact that I have an internal scandoubler the original HD holder doesn't fit and so I though I would just let the HD lay ontop of the board in an antistaticbag but it got so hot it melted the glue that was on the scandoubler underneath so I had to make a custom HD holder for it right away.)