I know that the fan on my old xBox fan is a little noisy and eventually I'll replace it with a quieter one, however, I had no idea that the hard drive was a noise problem. Obviously I can't hear anything above the noise of the fan currently. If the hard drive becomes a problem I'll probably replace it with a seagate barracuda since I've had good experiences with them and find them to be completely silent.
I already have the 128MB RAM thanks to xboxrepairguide.com and I was curious how well you box was working with just the 64MB, or are you merely talking about your future plans. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 07:18:54AM -0800, Ben Dash > wrote: > > I'm not sure what you'd gain by not using the hard > > drive for swap, my swap file is just a 256MB file > on > > hda50. The swap file doesn't effect the native > xBox > > functions. > > If I could use NFS for both root and swap (perhaps > with the help of > additional installed RAM) then I could shut down the > drive, gaining a > 50-75% reduction in ambient noise. The noise from > the XBox isn't a > problem when playing games since they tend to be > loud anyway, but it's > a real distraction when watching a relatively quiet > recording. > > I figure having a slow swap would make navigating > the menus painful and > would delay the start of the playback, but once I'm > actually watching > TV I wouldn't expect to have a lot of paging going > on. > > I was hoping someone on here would have already > tried it and could tell > me that it definitely works or definitely doesn't > work so I don't spend > a lot of (potentially wasted) time reinventing the > wheel. > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > __________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/ _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
