[mythtv-users] Need to quiet my frontend...

[Brian Wood]

On Wednesday 25 March 2009 12:43:02 Tom Lichti wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:52 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?
> >
> > Any suggestions appreciated.
>
> I run my main mythfrontend (it's also a slave backend that writes
> recordings to a NAS) off an 8GB USB thumbrive. Works like a charm, but
> my motherboard is fairly new. Yours might not support booting off a
> USB flash drive.

If he can't boot from a USB device, I think there are some boot floppy images 
around the net that will allow you to boot from a USB device, assuming you 
can boot from a floppy.

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