Silencing Homemade NAS

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so i traded a 2gb flash drive for a dell dimension 2100 (1.1GHz Celeron, 128MB Ram, 20GB hardrive, intel onboard graphics, etc.. ) I Decided to turn the thing into a NAS by using FreeNAS. It's All setup pretty much, I bought a cf to ide adapter on ebay for $3.99 and a 64mb cf card on the FS/T forums for $4.00 shipped. I took out the second NIC card and the sound card and once the thing was all setup I unhooked the cd drive. I currently have a 40gb hardrive and soon to be a 200 just gotta unlock it from the old xbox. I want to make the thing completely silent tho, because currently I can hear the CPU fan that low buzz, its prob a 40mm fan on this thing, i wondering if I could take it off all together and just use a heatsink or maybe ghetto rig a 120MM fan on top of it lol. Any Ideas?

heres an image of what the case looks like thnx google images :D
http://www.expertpcadvice.com/images/forsale/AXIM%200131.jpg
 
I wonder if that's the series that had the funky power supplies with the different pin-outs on the 20-pin and the special 6 pin connector. I have a similar sized case sitting here, but i'm not seeing a way you could easily add a 120mm to silence it. If you can find some way to jimmy rig a 120mm in there I'd say go for it though. That series of dell didn't come with a processor that needed a whole lot of cooling. It sounds like an interesting project :)
 
the psu is right over top the CPU, the thing has like a 40mm or smaller fan which I kinda just want to take off but i'm afraid ill burn that bad boy up. I also want to get some really quiet hardrives any recommendations? Would I see a speed increase if I used a gigabit pci lan card? i have a netgear 5 port gigabit switch and my two main desktops have gigabit.
 
ill take note on the samsung spinpoints, i still want to remove the fan from the heatsink, just havent got the balls too. I wish I could remove the PSU fan too but that sounds disaster waiting to happen. Maybe I can get a silent PSU.
 
If you're still talking about keeping that chassis and motherboard that came with that dell, just have a look at the 20 pin connector and make sure that it's the same as a standard atx power supply. We've had a couple dells in at my workplace that were the same design with some really funky power supplies. If that's the case then finding any power supply for it would be somewhat of a problem, let alone a silent one :D
 
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