Overheating of the system affects performance, so I ask myself "is the cooling good enought to prevent overheating?".
My machines are in the basement, the ambient temperature rarely gets above 70 degrees F. If your system is going to
be in a place where ambient temperature can get high, say 85 degrees F. or above, then you will probably be better
served by using a CPU fan. Otherwise, the original heatsink (even missing a piece for HD mounting) should work just
fine. Mine has, for years.
I was always amazed at people paying lots of money to upgrade I/Os with $100+ disk drives, etc, etc. I just went and
bought a couple of 2.5GB used drives that were something like $50 each at the time. Your 4GB drive would work just
fine for Win98/Win2000 and most distros of Linux. Yes, an external USB drive will work, just remember that this is
USB 1.0, so transfer rates will be on the order of 1/2 MByte per second. Good USB 2.0 can easily 20MBytes/second.
I/Os are fun, but they are just cute little toys for reading Email, web browsing, etc. No sense in getting too crazy
with them! :D
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