2009/1/12 Grahame Kelly <grah...@wildpossum.com>: > > Hi MythTV Users. > > < In a effort to have the most silent MythTV backend integrated frontends' > > > Those of you with some available dosh may be interested in the following > hard drives just released that are specially suited to multi-streaming media > data (DTV). That is of course until Solid State Drives become affordable > and appropriate sizes for DTV Media Centres, will probably do the best > available job of storage. > > URL --> > http://www.crn.com.au/News/92392,seagate-launches-new-pipeline-hd-drives.aspx > > Cheers. Grahame.
Hey, I imagine this is to compete directly with the Western Digital 'AV' branded drives which have been around for a while now and have very similar characteristics. http://www.westerndigital.com/en/company/releases/PressRelease.asp?release=%7BB1A99C2C-27CC-4575-9CC3-253DA4AB6A63%7D (N.B. Dated: April 9, 2007) It is also possible on most drives to adjust the acoustic profile using `hdparm -M`. Using this you can sacrifice performance for reduced noise. Even better of course is to have the drives spun down when not in use, then they're very quiet... Cheers, Owen. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
