[mythtv-users] New Frontend, Any gotchas with Compact Flash storage

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Mon Mar 3 00:26:04 UTC 2008


> On Sunday 02 March 2008 05:19 am, David Whyte wrote:
>
>> Just won a new Aopen mini PC on eBay but will need to add a harddrive
>> and RAM.  The box supports IDE HDDs, but I was thinking of going the
>> silent solution and getting a IDE - CF adaptor and a CF card since
>> this will be a FE only machine (or if I do add as a BE it will record
>> to the master BE over an NFS mount).
>
> I decided to use a conventional SATA disk drive for my FE. It's cheap,
> easy, and completely silent because the system doesn't touch the disk
> once it's up and running. I don't see the disk LED light during normal
> playback activities.

In my experience most of the noise from an HDD comes from the spinning
platter, not the actuator.

But if it works for you...

beww




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