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Posted: June 14 2007,17:06 QUOTE
I bought a Damn Small machine not long ago and it is a Damn nice thing booting DSL from a pendrive just simply works.

Now I want to expand by adding a 2.5 inch HD and need to temporarily also add a CD-ROM drive in order to install another OS  (Yeah, I know but be nice!!!)

Does the DSM have enough power availableto do this?
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Posted: June 17 2007,19:17 QUOTE
The DSL store seems to not say alot about the board, but it has a ide connector, so you should be able to get a laptop harddrive in there with an adaptor. Power might be a problem though since I can't tell if it has any molex power connectors. You would also need a way to mount the hd, since I cannot see any mounting hardware in the picture. As for the cd-rom, a ide-to-usb adaptor would work better.
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Posted: June 18 2007,15:25 QUOTE
I have opened  the case and it does indeed have two IDE connectors but no 4pin Molex, just a two pin (looks like a speaker connector with only +5 and ground).   So I went back to the drawing board over the weekend and came up with a nice workable solution that eliminates the issue altogether (Don't know why I didn't think of it earlier).

I used a powered USB hub and then had all the juice i needed to use an external USB HD and external USB cd/dvd drive!  Nice and clean!
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