Allan Hise wrote:
If your G4 cube is very noisy, either there is something seriously wrong with the cube or your ears are way too sensitive.
A stock cube has no fans, so noise would come from your hard drive (they can whine terribly when near death) and the optical drive can cause some strance vibrations.
Various upgrades can add noise as well.
Yep, I was very disappointed. I think it's probably the first thing - this is a cube that's being sitting on a shelf unused for some years. I borrowed it to get the SqueezeBox up and rip my CDs, with a faint hope of turning it into a really long term loan - but it is a big whiner. I don't believe it has any upgrades; optical drive isn't silent (and is losing its grip in terms of being able to eject CDs) but I think it's the hard disk that's at fault. I'm about halfway through ripping my pathetic collection; I'll back up to a firewire disk tonight in case the HD is fixing to die.
Thanks for your input. Nice to know that a cube can/should be silent; but since this was my only shot at a free one, and they still fetch remarkably strong prices on eBay, I'm now looking more towards Linkstation or similar.
I was recently doing some work at a location with lots of cubes, and noticed that a number of people turn them on their sides to keep things from falling into the slots. The IT folks said some cubes handle it, some will shut off. Anyway, they were all very quiet systems.
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