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On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 12:32 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:11:41 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > Yeah, it's pretty insane. We were using these machines only as MythTV |
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> > frontend boxes so basically they boot, start mythfrontend, spin down |
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> > the drive and then talk to the backend over the network. They didn't |
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> > need much space so I probably bought the smallest thing I could find 4 |
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> > years ago when I first built them. |
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> I've given up on hard drives for MythTV frontends, too much noise, heat, |
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> power and space. I tried flash storage for a while but now network boot. |
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> Neil Bothwick |
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On these Pundit-R machines I tried to get network booting working but |
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never did. Actually that whole idea still eludes me. I did spin the |
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drives down to reduce noise as these old 8GB drives are actually |
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*very* noisy and it's a really ugly high-pitched whine. The worst part |
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of noise from these little boxes now turns out to be the processor fan |
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and since it's a non-standard form factor I haven't found a quiet fan |
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to do a replacement. |
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- Mark |
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