On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 12:32 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@(protected):
> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:11:41 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> > Yeah, it's pretty insane. We were using these machines only as MythTV
> > frontend boxes so basically they boot, start mythfrontend, spin down
> > the drive and then talk to the backend over the network. They didn't
> > need much space so I probably bought the smallest thing I could find 4
> > years ago when I first built them.
>
> I've given up on hard drives for MythTV frontends, too much noise, heat,
> power and space. I tried flash storage for a while but now network boot.
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick

On these Pundit-R machines I tried to get network booting working but
never did. Actually that whole idea still eludes me. I did spin the
drives down to reduce noise as these old 8GB drives are actually
*very* noisy and it's a really ugly high-pitched whine. The worst part
of noise from these little boxes now turns out to be the processor fan
and since it's a non-standard form factor I haven't found a quiet fan
to do a replacement.

- Mark
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