On Tuesday, December 20, 2011 1:51:29 AM UTC-5, Dan wrote: > > ObQuip: "below" is a goto. Emails should never have gotos. Top > down. Not top, scroll to bottom to find information, then scroll > back up to find your place, then re-read and hope you remember all > the details of what was below - because it's no longer viewable in > the window without re-scrolling. > I'm very sorry, I did not know this.
> Could be the drive. Just as likely to be the fans running at a > > higher than normal speed because there's 5 years worth of dust > bunnies growin in there. > Just had the thing cleaned out a couple of months back because of what proved to be improperly-seated memory, so it's probably still OK in that regard. The whine sound stops as soon as the thing goes to sleep, and starts up as soon as it awakens. > SATA-I II or III drives will work just fine. The drives with the > > faster interfaces will match the interfaces lower speed. > Given my pretty light-duty needs, will 5400 instead of 7200 RPM make a lot of difference? Likewise a PATA laptop drive in an external enclosure as your suggested (I already have the encl and have a line on a NIB PATA WD Scorpio Blue internal laptop drive)? No gaming, video or image editing, or things like that, occasional streaming audio recording/editing of the resulting file, otherwise pretty undemanding in general. Thanks again: Bill > -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
