and no, no mysterious thumping.

Mind you, considering the former machine had 4 fans (twins blowing over the hard drives, the cpu fan and the power supply) PLUS I had the side of the case off and a fan blowing out of the cabinet....

a little thump would be perfectly acceptable.

But its actually very quiet.

And the case is ventilated well enough I don't need the vent fan for the cab (plus not having 4 old, hot, hdd in place helps)

I do have the tmp being logged..as I want to make sure...but since I'm not really taxing the cpu...and the SATA drives seem to run a bit cooler...temp doesn't seem to be an issue.

If it thumps I'll let you know. And the sale is over...and I'm out of BB rewards coupons too...till that purchase and the purchases for my parents clear..then I'll have some more coupons to shop for the big external.

On that...thinking along the lines of

http://www.bestbuy.c...maltake&cp=2&lp=1