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

[stuart]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 03/26/2009 03:32 AM, Francesco Peeters wrote:
>> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>   
>>> On 03/25/2009 02:52 PM, James Pifer 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. 
>>> 1) Wall
>>> 2) Drill
>>> 3) Thread cables through hole in wall
>>>
>>> Mike "No frontend is more pretty than an invisible frontend, and no
>>> frontend is more silent than one in the other room" Dean
>>>     
>> LOL! That'd be interesting... A MythBox against the outside wall of my
>> house...  :-)
> 
> If you only have one wall (and it's not circular), your MythBox is
> already outside.
> 
> If your Myth box is currently inside, look a bit to the left and/or right.
> 
> Mike

Are we talking a Möbius strip type wall here?

A thought that occurs to me as I look at the basement walls:  What about 
epoxying the toasty parts of the font end to those walls?  I understand 
that cement has a lower R value then some (most?) windows.  This should 
eliminate all the fans.

As for the HDD noise - are you already isolating the HDD w/rubber feet 
(you know, like a car's engine is isolated from a car's body)?  I seem 
to remember SonicBlue actually wrapping HDDs in sound deadening material 
before assembling a ReplayTV unit (I wouldn't, but that's what I think 
they did).

Also, some HDDs have something like a "slient running" setting where you 
don't hear as much clicking but accesses take longer.  You might look 
into that.