When HDDs are as capacious as 2 TB/drive, I doubt most people need 6 drives. I'd guess that only a handful of silence-oriented computer users ever use more than 2 HDD even with any of those cases with multiple HDD bays. My own home server (which is, of course, hidden away in a closet, and doesn't e...

Now my second 2TB Seagate is clicking and running slow. Just like the last drive, the clicking starts from time to time and then becomes more and more frequent. This really sucks. I'm having a very similar experience with a pair of 2TB Seagates in a RAID-1 setup. It periodically slows down almost t...

The Mac Cube of olden days was completely fanless and was cooled by convection. It actually overheated in most scenarios and was a failure, but it is nice to see they tried. It's not nearly as bad as all that. The Cube failed because it was basically a repackaged PowerMac that cost a lot more, and ...

Stop me if you think this is crazy ... On a Socket 939 board, you have to take off the existing heat sink retention clip and install Scythe's anyway. So I'm wondering: does it make sense to just clip the Ninja into the plastic retention clip that goes on the top side of the board before installing i...

I just recently came into possession of some old Apple hardware, including a couple of G4 Cubes. Silencing-wise, these things are a dream. Completely passive cooling means that blissful silence is within my reach. There's just two small flies in the ointment: 1> The Cubes, historically, tend to run ...