Drive noise is negligible from the PCH, I have a 1TB samsung drive, sitting 10' away I can hear the difference between the drive being up or down, but not to the extent that it would bother me in the slightest afterall you can hear a DVD spin up. And it's pretty much silent when a film is on.
HD streaming is a tricky one. 720 is generally fine, but as said 1080 is not perfect, even with wireless N it can be hit and miss. For me though copying files via USB to the internal drive is a simple solution. The egreat m31B runs on the same software and has an esata port which obviously gives faster transfer rates. This has an internal fan and is very slightly noisier. Plus the firmware is built by syabas who make the PCH and so it could be seen that the PCH gets faster and better updates. btw none of them will guarantee to play anything HD over format level 4.1 or 4 reframes. They play some but can sometimes get a little bogged down with it. This should never be a problem though really. -- Gibbo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gibbo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12331 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57710 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
