>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/14/2005 7:46:43 PM >>> <snippety>
>> Do yourself a favor and get a 20gb drive for the system. > >I recommend against any use of 20gb drives, especially in >frontends. While they are a bit more reliable, they put >out as much if not more heat, noise and power demand >as modern 200gb drives. Really? Well, maybe getting 20gb drives new would be a challenge. I picked up a new 5400 rpm drive for $25 about a year ago. Very quiet, very cool. >So if heat, noise and power consumption are issues, use >the biggest drives you can find. The downside is you >have fewer spindles/seek arms, so your disk will seek a >lot more between the OS and the video, but the >bandwidth for video is not so much that modern drives >have trouble handling it. I guess to each their own, but I'd never build a frontend only machine with something bigger than 60gb. I've even thought about trying to get mythtv to run under damn small linux on a usb drive and myth on another usb drive. Or maybe compact flash or SD cards. Totally silent stuff, eliminates the worry about drives being either too loud or to hot. Paul
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