Re: Migrating from openbrick to openbrick NG

Przemyslaw Brojewski <[email protected]> Thu, 22 Jul 2004 13:36:06 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.openbrick.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 04:33:39PM +0200, Vincent Thinselin wrote:
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> Przemyslaw Brojewski a =E9crit :
> > On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 11:33:49AM +0200, Vincent Thinselin wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I plan to change my current OB for the NG. Many reasons for this: tw=
o
> >> eth
> >> ports, USB2, more powerful processor,....
> >>
> >> I do have a couple of questions: does the NG have an internal IDE
> >> connector,or should everything be done by the USB2 ports ?
> >
> > It has IDE connector for 3.5" disks as well as 2.5" Laptop one.
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> Good. That's even better than external. Though I'm afraid of temperatur=
e.
> Adding a HD will make things worse I'm afraid. Is it your current setup=
 ?


I've bought 2.5" inch Toshiba 40GB disk (MK4025GAS). It is flat (9.5 mm),
very quiet, and it consumes below 3 watts of power, so heat shouldn't be=20
the problem.  I'm now building mounting kit for it, that will occupy
PCI slot. For the time being I use USB hard drive.

brojek.