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7V? Eww. You're not doing that nasty hack of connecting a fan between the 5V and 12V lines are you? If that fan dies and goes shortcircuit then wave the entire contents of your PC goodbye.

Is that likely? My fan actually came with a little cable which was wired up like that. Next time I open that machine, I'll see whether it still spins at 5v.

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When it comes down to it, I don't worry about this stuff too much. Yes, it would supremely suck if I lost my drives, and I had to lose all my movies and music, but in the end it's just data and it's really just for fun for me.

Yeah, if my movies, or MythTV recordings disappeared, I would barely blink. But my music, documents, photos and config is nice to have in RAID and backed up regularly.
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