[mythtv-users] 1TB+ drive recommendation?

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Brian Phillips <brian.phillips at gmx.net> wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
>> 194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   121   117   000    Old_age
>> Always       -       26
>
> Do you have any specific hard drive cooling?  Or is it simply a matter of
> case fans and the airflow created?
>
> Or did you just turn the drive on ;)?
>
> 26 seems awfully low (mine idle at 35-40) and I wanted to know if the WD
> Green drives are really that much cooler.  If it's 26 without any
> heatsinks/freeze spray, I'm definitely more excited about getting the WD
> Green as it would show that they actually do run as cool as advertised, and
> it's not marketing just pitching them as a cooler running drive.
>
> Brian

The box has a bunch of case fans - two in the front and one in the
back. It's a normal desktop PC running Gentoo and turned on all the
time but his usage model is very minimal. My dad is in his 80's and
cannot hear well. Hearing aid, etc. so he's not bothered by fan noise.
Not exactly the configuration that would be a media server sitting in
the living room! ;-)

Don't get me wrong - it's a pretty normal level of PC noise - not a
jet and not silent.

that said when I built the machine a few weeks ago I had the drive
outside the box. Even when building Gentoo from scratch, including
XFCE, Gnome and KDE - the drive never did much more than warm up to
the touch.

Cheers,
Mark