[mythtv-users] Need to quiet my frontend...
James Pifer
jep at obrien-pifer.com
Wed Mar 25 19:14:58 UTC 2009
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 13:13 -0500, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 1:52 PM, James Pifer <jep at obrien-pifer.com>
> wrote:
> I have a frontend system in the bedroom. It's a slim form
> factor Compaq
> D5S/P1.7 running mythdora 5. The system is fairly quiet except
> for the
> hard drive. What are people doing to quiet these down?
>
> I tried installing the system to a flash drive, but the
> install keeps
> failing. Not sure it will run well enough off a flash drive
> anyway.
>
> The other possibility is running off the network. Anybody
> doing this
> successfully?
>
> Are there hard drive options that are quieter? SSD maybe?
>
> I bought an 8GB CF card with a CF to IDE adapter from addonics. Works
> like a charm. Super silent and cheap
>
> Kevin
Thanks, will look into that option as well.
James
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