[mythtv-users] esata drives - experience?

[mikp]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 10:43:22 -0500
"David Durham, Jr." <david.durham.jr at gmail.com> wrote:

> >  I had a similar situation of trying to use my spare ide drives in a seperate hard
> >  drive enclosure (with eSATA port multiplier PMP) and connecting to my pc with
> >  eSATA cable. I wanted to isolate the noise of the 4 drives by putting the HD
> >  box in a closet and using a 2 meter eSATA cable to connect to the pc.
> 
> I hope you're going to store plenty of flammable items in the very same closet.
> 

Nah... with 4 drives this box draws under 50 watts and with an additional
fan the drive temps are about 10C above ambient. The noise isolation alone is
definitely worth it and you don't have to cool those 4 drives inside the pc
case which already has 3 or 4 tuner cards generating as much heat as the extra 4
hd's.