Technical questions for the MPC2000xl and the MPC2000
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By pt3r Fri Apr 21, 2006 11:43 am
These harddrives are housed in an external casing with electric fans.
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By Lampdog Fri Apr 21, 2006 11:44 am
damn beat me to it again.
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By pt3r Fri Apr 21, 2006 11:48 am
Must be those pills ... :lol:
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By cta052006 Sun Apr 23, 2006 3:05 am
coollll...where can they be bought????
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By pt3r Mon Apr 24, 2006 7:55 am
The pills ? I could tell you but then again ...
The external casing on the other hand can be bought in a computer supply store, make sure to specify that it is a casing for scsi devices.
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By McSmooth Mon Apr 24, 2006 3:19 pm
People do have larger drives, but I bet they are all external... this thread is about internal drives. Really hard to find a small internal scsi and expensive to find an scsi/ide converter that will actually work. I agree that a card reader is a much better idea on so many levels. You don't need more than 2GB of storage for a machine with 32MB of RAM (and if you do, you can get another card, or just pop it in your PC and grab what you need).

I doubt that drive heat would really cause a problem since you wont find a 10k drive. It may be possible, but I have yet to see an MPC overheat even in some unbarably hot/humid rooms. On external drives, it rarely an issue, but dependant on how efficient the enclosure is.

For an easy buy on external drives, just check ebay. There are drives on there that are specifically tested with the MPC. If you ultimately want a giant drive, that is the way to go.