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To: Clarence Dodge who wrote (3051)	10/17/1998 3:07:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	of 14778

Cooling two IDE harddrives in a midtower. My old IBM Aptiva has two IDE drives. Its been running for three years without a problem. 5400 IDE harddrives do not run very hot. If you are not considering additional drives...CDRW..CDR..internal JAZ..a midtower should be ok. I go into my case a lot and prefer the space in the full tower. I would not make my decision based on the heat of two IDE drives. Depending on the case layout I would put the primary drive in the location of the best air circulation. The second drive would probably be idle most of the time and therefor not generate much heat. You could add a drive cooler or a bay cooler(given a spare bay) if you wanted to maximize the drive life. There are a couple at Dirt Cheap Drives. dirtcheapdrives.com Click on brackets..then drive brackets. Zeuspaul

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