[mythtv-users] Dream Machine

[Joseph Jamieson]

I have a 120GB Maxtor 7200 RPM drive in my Xbox, and it's extremely
quiet.  You can barely hear it.  The CPU fan (which is pretty quiet too)
is louder.

When the drive is being accessed, it doesn't click very loud either.
And the drive, even after hours of running, is only luke-warm to the
touch; even when enclosed in the plastic house in the Xbox.

My friend got the same drive for his Xbox and it's just as quiet.  Just
thought I might chime in a little.

-----Original Message-----
From: James Knight [mailto:foom at fuhm.net] 
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 3:22 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Dream Machine

On Saturday, April 5, 2003, at 02:49  PM, Dan Conti wrote:
>> 120GB Maxtor 5400 (for noise reasons)
>
> Skip the maxtor and get a seagate barracuda V. It's the quietest drive
> available and has fairly good performance. There are benchmarks for 
> this
> sort of stuff at www.storagereview.com. It's worth your time to look 
> into
> quieter CPU fans, case fans, and power supplies, especially if the box

> is
> going to be on all the time.

That site doesn't have the Maxtor DiamondMax 16 120GB drive (4R120L0) 
listed. But all reports I read said it's one of the quietest drives 
around.

James

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