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Sorry, the Northbridge question was an entirely separate question to the external drive thing. I know what it does. Your old machine has a fan on it, it was noisy, I wondered how much it was actually needed - never having had active Northbridge cooling on anything before. I found you had a fan speed controller on it and dropped it rather than turn it off.
I've gone with a WD Red drive in a Icy Block enclosure and that cheap eSATA card. Why the clean power supply issue? Is the caddy likely to be more sensitive to power fluctuations? It should have a decent power supply on it (it better, at £50-something just for a caddy!)