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Truce,

Bitor, The statements on the 4000 you made were not correct. The 4000 can be upgraded to handle higher capacity HDs. Some but not all may have a PS problem. There is more than 1 source for power supplies. If I recall one mfg made the PS with a higher capacity, knowing it was weak.

Andy has converted many AT PS to work in the 4000. I have had users use a STD AT PS outside of the case with no problems to trouble shoot a PS that was indicating bad.

HD's have reduced their number of platter, reducing power consumption, and increased capacity all at the same time. The newer higher capacity notebook drives have higher performance than the original HD's during this era. You could install NB drives with adapters and not have any problems.

Harry, These older units are only good if your using the older OS's. If your using 98, 2k and XP these will serve you well. The 4000 is one of the quietest 4 drive systems out. They are not very fast, and is limited by the 100BaseT port, but can use most of the full capacity if connecting with FTP. SMB will be 1/2 of FTP. The FTP is very picky, so it may be difficult to get setup and working. You may need to try different clinet software to find one that works.

I still have a 2200 running on v4.0.860 firmware.