:53 PM
To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Hard Drive Question
Yeah, I've considered using a drive quieting rig of some sort. A
little googling and I found the craziest of things, including
suspending the drive in bungee cords or other elastic material, foam
of all types
It has been several years since I've run a laptop drive in a desktop
system, and then only to see if it worked, but if its an ide drive as
far as I know you simply need a special cable. Now undoutably ide
drives either laptop or desktop continue to improve so I suspect a new
laptop drive
Op maandag 31 januari 2005 08:12, schreef Andy Long:
I'm not really sure you would gain much in terms of quiet or a cool
drive. Many laptop drives I've used - specifically Hitachi/IBM
travelstar drives - are actually quite noisy. You'd get a lot more
bang for your buck by buying a seagate,
--- Maverick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How about recommendations in the 3.5 arena, since
2.5 seems
cost/performance prohibitive?
Can't beat that 5-year Seagate bumper-to-bumper
warranty. Plus the drives are relatively quiet and
they offer up to 400G capacity. I have three 300G
drives going
You might want take a look at
http://www.quietpcusa.com/acb/showdetl.cfm?DID=8Product_ID=198CATID=1
($63.95)
Its basically a solid aluminum enclosure for your drive. You need a
5.25 slot to make it work. It works partly by being so massive that
vibrations are reduced. I don't have one. I
Hey all,
I've had a myth box for a couple weeks running KnoppMyth v4r5 and
have enjoyed it alot. Unfortunatly, the drive I used is getting more
and more bad blocks, and now they're starting to cause kernel panics
when mythbackend trys to commercial detect and watch live tv, etc. It
was a bad
I think the problem with most laptop drives is they are slow. They
run at around 4200rpm to save power. I don't know if this would be
considered slow, I think it would, but how it impacts myth, I don't
know.
Whytey
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 01:13:10 -0500, Maverick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey
I'm not really sure you would gain much in terms of quiet or a cool
drive. Many laptop drives I've used - specifically Hitachi/IBM
travelstar drives - are actually quite noisy. You'd get a lot more
bang for your buck by buying a seagate, which are very quiet. Also,
laptop drives get hot,
