[mythtv-users] Perfect frontend?

[sonofzev at iinet.net.au]

On Thu Mar  5 21:43 , Ray Lischner  sent:

>On Wednesday 04 March 2009 01:31 pm, Jack Perveiler wrote:
>
>>> Skip the hard drive and just get a cheap USB thumb drive...
>> 
>> I second that.  I have a diskless frontend (using pxe and ltsp, not a
>> thumb drive) in an antec nsk2480...
>
>I, too, have an NSK2480 and I love it. What little noise there is comes
>from the case fan, not from the disk. I considered a number of options,
>but in the end I opted for an ordinary SATA disk. It's cheap. It's
>easy. It's reliable. And it's silent (except when the systems boots).
>X windows, mythfrontend, etc., all fit quite easily in the 1GB RAM I
>installed. Once all the sotware is up and running, there is no
>significant disk usage.
>--
>Ray Lischner
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I use an NSK for a frontend too (actually at the moment it's both front and
backend, this will change soon).. but same as Ray I have opted for 2 SATA
drives.. from the distance we sit from the unit we can't hear the drives even on
boot up and you can barely hear the fans when it is running... partially because
I mistakenly bought the Noctua NF-P12's which got rave reviews from everywhere
(except SPCR but I only saw that after I bought them).. they have a distinctive
"note" about them... quiet yes, but that sound makes it meaningless... think I'll
go back to Scythe or Nexus...