[mythtv-users] Perfect frontend?

[Steven Adeff]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Jack Perveiler <perveilerj at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Skip the hard drive and just get a cheap USB thumb drive.  I bought them
>> from newegg in a two pack and got rid of one of the noisiest things in my
>> frontends.
>
> I second that.  I have a diskless frontend (using pxe and ltsp, not a thumb
> drive) in an antec nsk2480
> (http://www.antec.com/Believe_it/product1.php?id=MzI=) and it's just about
> silent.  My dlp tv has a small fan that is actually much louder than the
> case+included ps+athlon x2 with stock fan.  I say "much louder", but in
> reality I can't hear either over what I'm watching even at low volume
> levels.  People tend to REALLY underestimate how much noise a HD makes.

Do the thumb drives deal ok with the logs being written or do you have
your /var/log nfs mounted to a drive on your backend, or does it just
not matter?

-- 
Steve
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